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Christians in Nigeria are being killed for a mix of reasons: jihadist and extremist campaigns that target communities in the north and northeast, localized communal and pastoral conflicts—often involv...
Available reporting shows major disagreement about annual counts and methodologies: Open Doors’ World Watch List reported 3,100 Christians killed in Nigeria in 2024 (cited by multiple outlets) while N...
Available sources do not provide a clear, global, year-by-year tally of homicides "attributable to religiously motivated violence" split between Muslims and Christians since 2000; reporting instead of...
A precise, independently verified count of how many people have been killed in Sudan "for being Christian" this year is not available in the reporting reviewed; international and faith-based organizat...
The Quran contains verses that instruct fighting in certain contexts (for example Surah At‑Tawbah includes passages that say “Fight those who do not believe…”), and it also contains passages that spea...
Yes — multiple credible reports and datasets show that large numbers of Christians have been killed in Nigeria in recent years, driven by Islamist insurgency, communal violence between herders and far...
Available reporting shows wide disagreement about counts of Christians killed or displaced in Nigeria 2015–2024: NGO and media tallies range from tens of thousands over multi‑year periods to single‑ye...
The claim that is grounded in recent reports from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) and a related figure cited by Open Doors, which together assert that ...
The available materials do not provide a reliable, single figure for how many Christians Boko Haram has killed in Nigeria since 2015; the reports offer rather than a clear, Boko Haram–specific total ....
There is no clear, verifiable count in the supplied reporting for how many Christians were killed in the country of Niger in 2024; the material instead concentrates on killings of Christians in Nigeri...
Available credible reports disagree sharply on annual counts of Christians killed in Nigeria. Open Doors’ World Watch List cites 3,100 Christian deaths in 2024 ; Intersociety/ACLED-linked figures and ...
Available reporting shows that persecution affects both Christians and Muslims across many countries, but the balance—whether Muslims face higher prosecution rates than Christians—varies by country an...
ACLED counts and classifies incidents of political violence using media, social media verification, rights groups and local partners, and records only those events specifically reported as religion-ta...
The original claim asks what percentage of Muslims versus Christians are prosecuted or killed “by side”; available evidence does not support a simple, global percentage comparison because datasets mea...
Global figures in recent reporting show large, but very different, tallies for Christians and Muslims when researchers count “persecution” by various measures: Open Doors’ World Watch List estimates a...
The claim that specific countries persecute Christians is supported by multiple, recent compilations—primarily Open Doors’ World Watch List 2025—which identifies 50 countries where Christians face to ...
The materials provided document a clear pattern of intensified pressure on Christians in Iran—especially converts from Islam—manifesting as arrests, prison sentences, legal measures that broaden state...
Most reporting and advocacy groups say attacks on Christian communities are concentrated in northern Nigeria and the central “Middle Belt,” with repeated attacks in states such as Borno, Benue, Platea...
Chinese student enrollment in the U.S. has fallen substantially from its late-2010s peak — Open Doors-based tallies show roughly 277,000–278,000 Chinese students in 2023–24 and reporting in 2025 says ...
Since 2015, recurring clashes between mostly Muslim Fulani herders and largely Christian farmers in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been linked to numerous killings, displacements and attacks on churches; ...