നൈജീരിയയിൽ, കൃഷിസ്ഥലത്ത് കന്നുകാലികളെ മേയ്ക്കുന്നത് എതിർത്തതിന്, ഫുലാനി തീവ്രവാദികൾ ആറ് ക്രിസ്ത്യൻ ഗ്രാമീണരെ കുത്തിക്കൊലപ്പെടുത്തി. മറ്റൊരു ക്രിസ്ത്യൻ ഗ്രാമവാസിയെയും കുത്തി കൊലപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നു. നസറാവ സംസ്ഥാനത്തെ നസറാവ കൗണ്ടിയിലെ, ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികൾ കൂടുതലുള്ള ഫാരിൻ ഡട്സെ ഗ്രാമത്തിൽ മാർച്ച് പത്തിന് അതിക്രമിച്ചു കയറിയ അക്രമികൾ വീടുകൾക്കും തീയിട്ടതായി പ്രദേശവാസിയായ ഈസാവ് എസെക്കിയൽ പറഞ്ഞു.

“നിരവധി ക്രിസ്ത്യൻ ഗ്രാമവാസികൾ കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു. ഇതുവരെ ആറ് മൃതദേഹങ്ങൾ കണ്ടെടുത്തു, ഞങ്ങളുടെ ഗ്രാമത്തെ ആക്രമിച്ചതിനുശേഷം ഫുലാനി തീവ്രവാദികൾ നിരവധി വീടുകൾക്ക് തീയിട്ടു”- എസെക്കിയൽ പറഞ്ഞു. പുലർച്ചെ മൂന്നുമണിയോടെ താമസക്കാർ ഉറങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുമ്പോഴാണ് ഫുലാനി തീവ്രവാദികൾ ആക്രമണം നടത്തിയതെന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം പറഞ്ഞു.
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Fulani herdsmen on Monday (March 10) killed at least six Christian villagers in central Nigeria after stabbing another to death the prior day because he objected to them grazing their cattle on his property, sources said.

The assailants who invaded predominantly Christian Farin Dutse village, in Nasarawa state’s Nasarawa County, on Monday also set homes ablaze, said area resident Esau Ezekiel.

“Many Christian villagers have been killed, six corpses have so far been recovered, and many houses set ablaze by rampaging Fulani herdsmen after they attacked our village,” Ezekiel told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.

The herdsmen attacked at about 3 a.m. as residents were sleeping, he said.

The previous day (March 9), villagers were attending a church worship service when a herdsman led his cattle onto a farm belonging to a Christian, Ezekiel said.

“The herdsman was spotted cutting down branches from one of the mango trees on the farm and feeding his cattle with the mango tree leaves,” he said. “The farmer asked him to lead his cattle out of the farm, but instead of complying with the instructions of the farmer to stop his cattle from destroying crops on the farm, the herdsman stabbed the Christian farmer to death.”

The herdsman led the other Fulanis in the early morning attack on Monday, Ezekiel said. He identified those slain as Friday Danladi, Simeon Madaki, Ayawu Senior, Sunday Wa’azu, Vincent Sunday, Taimako Senior and Filibus Jatau.

Wounded in the attack were Christians Samaniya Wa’azu, Vincent Ezekiel and Johnson Maikasuwa, he said.

The Nasarawa State Police Command confirmed the names and number of Christians killed in Monday’s attack, saying the corpses were identified as those of Simeon Madaki, Ayawu Senior, Sunday Wa’azu, Vincent Sunday, Taimako Senior and Filibus Jatau.

Ramhan Nansel, spokesman for the Nasarawa State Police, said in a statement that the three injured victims were taken to a medical center for treatment.

“Some houses, shops, motorcycles and a car were also vandalized during the attack,” Nansel said “To ensure law and order, the area has been reinforced with personnel from the Mobile Police of 69 PMF Toto, alongside other police operatives and the military, who are currently patrolling the vicinity.”

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.

“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.

Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.

Nigeria remained among the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. Of the 4,476 Christians killed for their faith worldwide during the reporting period, 3,100 (69 percent) were in Nigeria, according to the WWL.

“The measure of anti-Christian violence in the country is already at the maximum possible under World Watch List methodology,” the report stated.

In the country’s North-Central zone, where Christians are more common than they are in the North-East and North-West, Islamic extremist Fulani militia attack farming communities, killing many hundreds, Christians above all, according to the report. Jihadist groups such as Boko Haram and the splinter group Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), among others, are also active in the country’s northern states, where federal government control is scant and Christians and their communities continue to be the targets of raids, sexual violence, and roadblock killings, according to the report. Abductions for ransom have increased considerably in recent years.

The violence has spread to southern states, and a new jihadist terror group, Lakurawa, has emerged in the northwest, armed with advanced weaponry and a radical Islamist agenda, the WWL noted. Lakurawa is affiliated with the expansionist Al-Qaeda insurgency Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, or JNIM, originating in Mali.

Nigeria ranked seventh on the 2025 WWL list of the 50 worst countries for Christians.
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റിയാദ് : സൗദി അറേബ്യയിലേക്കുള്ള വിസിറ്റ് വീസ അനുവദിക്കുന്നതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് പുതിയ നിയന്ത്രണം ഏർപ്പെടുത്തി സൗദി വിദേശകാര്യ മന്ത്രാലയം. സൗദി വിദേശകാര്യ മന്ത്രാലയത്തിന്റെ വീസ അനുവദിക്കുന്ന സൈറ്റിൽ നിന്ന് സിംഗിൾ, മൾട്ടിപ്പിൾ എൻട്രി ഓപ്ഷനുകളാണ് പിൻവലിച്ചത്. വീസക്ക് അപേക്ഷിക്കുന്നവർക്ക് ഏത് തരം വീസയാണ് അനുവദിക്കേണ്ടത് എന്ന് ഇനി മുതൽ അതാത് രാജ്യങ്ങളിലെ സൗദി എംബസിക്കോ കോൺസുലേറ്റിനോ തീരുമാനിക്കാം. ഇത് സ്ഥിരം സംവിധാനമാണോ താൽകാലിക നിയന്ത്രണമാണോ എന്നാ കാര്യത്തിൽ വ്യക്തതയില്ല.

രണ്ടുമാസം മുൻപാണ് സൗദിയിലേക്കുള്ള സന്ദര്‍ശക വീസ അപേക്ഷയിൽ മാറ്റങ്ങളുണ്ടായത്. ഒരു വീസയിൽ സൗദിയിലേക്ക് പലവട്ടം വരാൻ സാധിക്കുന്ന മള്‍ട്ടിപ്ള്‍ എന്‍ട്രി അപേക്ഷ സൗകര്യം നേരത്തെ പിൻവലിച്ചിരുന്നു. ഇത് പിന്നീട് പുനഃസ്ഥാപിച്ചെങ്കിലും വി.എഫ്.എസ് കേന്ദ്രങ്ങളില്‍ സൗകര്യം പുനഃസ്ഥാപിച്ചില്ല.

അപേക്ഷിക്കുന്ന എല്ലാവർക്കും സിംഗിൾ എൻട്രിയാണ് അനുവദിച്ചത്. എന്നാല്‍ ഇന്നലെ (വ്യാഴം) മുതൽ ഈ സൗകര്യവും സൗദി വിദേശകാര്യ മന്ത്രാലയം സൈറ്റില്‍ നിന്ന് മള്‍ട്ടിപ്പിൾ, സിംഗിള്‍ എന്‍ട്രി സൗകര്യം പിന്‍വലിച്ചു. ഇനി മുതൽ അതാത് രാജ്യങ്ങളിലെ സൗദി എംബസിക്കോ കോൺസുലേറ്റിനോ മാത്രമായിരിക്കും വീസ അനുവദിക്കുന്നതിലെ അധികാരം.
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As Nigeria continues to experience unparalleled levels of murder, kidnappings, and rape at the hands of radical Islamist terrorists targeting Christians and other religious minorities, a House subcommittee hearing held Wednesday concluded that the most populous country in Africa must be redesignated as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the US Department of State in order to pressure the Nigerian government to take more forceful action to quell the violence.

According to the World Watch List 2025, the country where the most Christians were killed in 2024 was Nigeria, with 3,100 murdered and 2,830 kidnapped. These are only the latest acts of brutal violence that have plagued the West African nation since at least 2009, when Islamist terrorist groups like Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsman began a concerted and widespread campaign of violence. In all, over 50,000 Christians have been slaughtered by various Islamist terrorist groups since then, mostly in the rural areas of central and northern Nigeria. Some estimates say the number killed is as high as 62,000 since the year 2000. Approximately 48% of Nigeria’s 236 million people are Christian, and 50% are Muslim.

There appears to be no end in sight to the ongoing brutal violence. As noted by Committee Chairman Chris Smith (R-NJ), the violence has claimed “at least 58 lives this past weekend and hundreds of others in recent weeks.” In addition, at least 50 Christians were killed and dozens kidnapped in January, and a Catholic priest was murdered last week on Ash Wednesday.

In response to the unparalleled level of violence occurring in Nigeria, the first Trump administration placed the country on the State Department’s CPC list in 2020, which was designed to be accompanied by economic and other sanctions to encourage the government to crack down on the violence. But in 2021, the Biden administration removed Nigeria from the CPC list, which notably happened “one day before [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken went to Nigeria to visit with state leaders, including President Muhammadu Buhari,” according to Family Research Council’s Arielle Del Turco.

International religious freedom experts and religious leaders decried the decision and have been advocating for Nigeria to be included on the list once again. On Wednesday, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing entitled, “Conflict and Persecution in Nigeria: The Case for a CPC Designation” to explore the issue.

FRC President Tony Perkins, who formerly served as a commissioner, vice chair, and chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) from 2018-2022, testified before the subcommittee on the need for the designation.

“I can tell you with certainty that the world is not paying enough attention to the growing humanitarian disaster in Nigeria, despite its strategic importance as Africa’s most populous country,” he remarked. “These warning lights are flashing because of this systematic religious persecution driven primarily by Islamists, and it’s going unaddressed. … More than 4,000Believershave been forced to flee for their lives in recent weeks alone.”

After pointing out that over 3,000 Christians were killed in 2024, Perkins observed, “These are not just numbers. These are fathers, they’re mothers, they’re children, they’re families. The case of Leah Sharibu underscores the horror of this crisis. Leah was just 14 years old when Boko Haram kidnapped her and 108 other girls from their school in 2018. The terrorists eventually released all the girls except Leah. Why? Because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. Reports suggest she is still alive and now held as a prize by her captors, as she has been forced to bear children in captivity.”

Perkins went on to relate how former Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to explain why Nigeria was removed from the CPC list, suggesting in a meeting with USCIRF members “that these massacres were caused by climate change, that desperate Fulani herders were simply looking for pasture land. Let me be clear. This is not about climate change. It’s about a violent extremist ideology that seeks to eliminate Christianity from Nigeria’s northern and central regions.”

Perkins further detailed how a country being designated with a CPC status can drive crucial reforms to protect religious minorities from persecution.

“The evidence [of religious persecution in Nigeria] overwhelmingly meets the legal threshold under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which requires CPC status for governments that engage in or tolerate severe violations of religious freedom,” he explained. “That’s exactly what Nigeria’s government has done. It has failed to protect all of its citizens from religious violence. The … president has the authority to take action against CPC designated nations, including economic penalties. The US should apply targeted sanctions against Nigerian officials who are complicit in religious persecution, as well as suspend certain trade benefits until concrete actions are taken to protect all Nigerians. Religious freedom protection must be tied to US-Nigerian relations. The administration should make it clear that Nigeria’s treatment of religious minorities will directly impact diplomatic and economic relations, including trade agreements and security assistance.”

Perkins also argued that “the US must reappoint a strong, high-profile ambassador for international religious freedom. During the first Trump administration, this role was used effectively under the leadership of Ambassador Sam Brownback to apply global pressure on persecuting nations. The momentum for that must be regained.”

Another panelist included Nigerian Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, who Chairman Smith noted traveled to the US to testify before the committee “at great risk.” Smith also observed that Anagbe’s diocese “is where the worst of the violent persecution in Nigeria is occurring by militant Fulani, causing the highest number of displaced people living in internally displaced camps [which] are the source of daily attacks by the militant Islamic extremists.”

During his testimony, Anagbe revealed that a “long term Islamic agenda to homogenize the population has been implemented over several presidencies, through a strategic strategy to reduce and eventually eliminate the Christian identity, or of half of the population. This strategy includes both violent and non-violent actions, such as the exclusion of Christians from positions of power and adoption of such church members, the raping of women, the killing and expulsion of Christians, the destruction of churches and farmlands of Christian farmers, followed by the occupation of such lands by the Fulani herders, and also changing the names of these villages.”

Anagbe went on to relate how there is virtually no law enforcement in his diocese. “When we call for help to the police and the army, they do not come. At the end of 2024, several villages were burned by the attackers … and the leaders called the police for defense ahead of time. But they did not come, and the Christian massacres, almost customary, took place, killing hundreds in Plateau [State] and Benue [State], with the worst massacre claiming 47 people. The militants also burned down the eight Catholic churches of Saint Mary’s parish in the Diocese of Gboko and in Benue State, as well as the parish house, clinic, schools and other houses.”

Anagbe further described how millions of Christians have fled to nine different refugee camps in his diocese, where they still remain under constant threat. “We live in fear, because at any point it can be our turn to be killed. But to remain silent is to die twice. So I have chosen to speak.”

“We have to talk for the defenseless,” he continued. “We have to talk about the weak and those who cannot talk about themselves. … I speak on behalf of those whose loved ones have been killed, but no one has even offered a word of consolation to them. I speak on behalf of the thousands of young girls who have been abducted and raped because no one, not even the media, mentions them. Foremost, I speak on behalf of my flock, who are unable to worship freely and unable to return to their ancestral farms and homes because that land has been ruthlessly taken from them by the armed herdsmen.”
Sources:BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS

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