On Christmas morning in 2024, Solomon Amande, like many Christians in Benue State of Nigeria, attended a special church service to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. After the service, Christians returned home for a celebratory meal when they were attacked by Muslims in one of the bloodiest Christmas attacks in recent history.
“They were chasing people and shooting sporadically, and whoever they caught up with was killed,” Solomon recalls from that bloody Christmas morning when 140 believers were killed.
“Christmas is the most deadly time of the year for Christians in Nigeria,” explained one Nigerian Pastor, who has been working with BTJ for years. Almost every Christmas, hundreds of Christians are hunted down in Nigeria and killed. Their homes and churches are burned to the ground and children are abducted.
This year alone, over 7,000 Christians have been slaughtered for their faith. That is about 35 per day as confirmed by human rights groups and US congress.
This is why BTJ is launching Christmas in Nigeria, in an effort to provide food and safety for families to celebrate Christmas.
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JUST THIS WEEK ALONE:
- Armed Muslims attacked a church, killed at least two worshippers, kidnapped the pastor and abducted several Christian leaders.
- Armed Muslims raided a Christian boarding school and kidnapped 25 girls who are likely believed to have been raped and forced into Islamic marriages.
- Armed Muslims stormed a Christian school and kidnapped more than 303 young children as young as 10 years old and also abducted 12 teachers.
In recent reports from CNN, the Muslims attacking Christians are called “bandits” in an effort to hide the hideous nature of these religious attacks, but Nigerian Christians have been sending BTJ videos for years asking for help. These videos are not typical materials shown at Christmas, but they do show the reality of what Christians experience every day in Nigeria.
WARNING: The following videos are extremely graphic. Please do not watch the videos below if you are sensitive to graphic content.
WARNING: The following video is extremely graphic and shows how Muslims kill Christians when they run out of bullets. Bullets are expensive and not always easy to afford, which is why sometimes, instead of shooting Christians, Muslims use blunt objects to simply crush the skulls of their victims.
Many news outlets and ill-informed people are making disgusting attempts to purposefully pollute the information about the current genocide in Nigeria, claiming the violence is not about Christianity. The reports that are shared by the Nigerian Islamic government leaders are meant to make the genocide confusing to whitewash the attacks as “complicated and nuanced.”
Although it is true that Muslims are also killed in these attacks on Christians, it is important to understand that they are not the target. Christians and those who believe in Jesus are the target of the attacks. This is the main difference.
This is why churches are specifically attacked and burned down. This is why young Christian students are kidnapped and held for ransom. This is why Christian holy days are the focus of the attacks and not Muslim holy days.
“When Christians in Nigeria are kidnapped,” one Nigerian Pastor shared during a BTJ private meeting in Oxford last month, “they are told they will be released if they will only convert to Islam.”
The situation is extremely simple. Christians are being targeted which is why Christian holidays like Christmas are the most dangerous times of the year for believers in Nigeria.
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A few Christians here and there cannot help the Nigerian Christian community, it is the UN and the USA can intervene by force make the govt of Nigeria to take action, failure for the USA to make an expedition against Nigeria.
May God help the Nigerian Christians.
We are sorry you have so little faith. We believe we should obey the Word of God which tells us to support the parts of the body of Christ who are in need and hurting. We also refuse to underestimate the power of prayer and the power of God to intervene for His people.
Jesus said where 2 or 3 are gathered together in His name there He is in their midst! He also said if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains! No power in the world is able to accomplish more than just a handful of believers on their knees! All powers of the world are nothing but pawns in Gods hands. So Christians this is your call to pray for the believers in Nigerian and around the world who are being slaughtered for their faith. Your actions can and will make a difference!
God has made the world round so there are no corners to hide in.
It is Gods desire that the body of Christ should stand up and pray, sit down and pray, lie down and pray just get into the spiritual fight and pray for OUR- YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST JESUS. Also put your hand in Your pocket MY HAND IN MY POCKET and give something and help our Christian FAMILY in their time of extreme need. Jn 3:16
This is not happening in all of Nigeria. The southern part of Nigeria is very different. Some of the wealthiest pastors in the world…with mega churches…ones that have their own jets and fancy cars. They have the ability to help those in the north. They have the ability to put pressure in the government. I am praying that they will rise up to meet this need. Christmas in Lagos or Abuja…it is very different.
I’ve been thinking the exact same thing! And praying – they are their neighbors!
I have read multiple accounts in Christian history up to our day, beginning in Bible times, where God has sent angels or otherwise provided divine intervention in extreme crises.
My first impulse on reading this article was a practical urge for intervention by force of arms. But God has not given me that power or authority. Indeed Almighty God will have vengeance in His time and in His way not mine.
But I considered the response of faith, and the power and authority God has given me. Then I remembered the miraculous accounts of divine intervention. And the weapon of prayer, and the gift of giving.
God wishes to glorify Christ in the demonstration of love shown by us His people, who will suffer with those who suffer. May we pray for them like they were our own family. Because they are!
O Jesus, comfort, heal, restore and build up Your suffering children. And strengthen us to do our part on their behalf.
Also give a change of heart to their attackers. Open their eyes to the cruelty and inhumanity of their actions. Soften their hearts to feel deep shame for their deeds, and also pity for those they have killed, wounded, uprooted, and impoverished. Lead them to repentance and to restore what they have stolen. And may the leaders of each area grant full protection for their citizens.
But if the leaders and attackers will not change their hearts and minds, may we Your people, and these Your afflicted sheep, never turn back from your love, truth and our faith in You Jesus.
O Lord hear us! O send Your mercy and grace today!
In Jesus Name, Amen
I am praying that God will place this same urgency on the hearts of believers in southern Nigeria who are NOT facing this af all. Some of the wealthiest pastors in the world…and some of the largest churches are in Nigeria. Pastors flying in private jets or first class to destinations around the world for conferences. Traveling with entourages. How can you/we encourage them to rise up and help their brothers and sisters in the northern states. Please reach out to them for funds.