Christian communities in Nigeria are increasingly accusing members of the government and security services of negligence or even complicity in the escalating violence against Christians. Photos by Nigerian journalist Paul. Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews [...]
‘Failed to intervene’
A Nigerian pastor who gained President Trump's attention for burying persecuted Christians now says a Fulani militia has threatened to kill him, days after the same group slaughtered nine members of his extended family. Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a regional leader of the Church of Christ in Nations in Nigeria's Middle Belt, posted on X that […] The post Nigerian pastor featured by Trump receives death threat after Fulani militia kills nine of his relatives appeared first on American Almanac .
A Nigerian pastor who gained President Trump's attention for burying persecuted Christians now says a Fulani militia has threatened to kill him, days after the same group slaughtered nine members of his extended family. Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a regional leader of the Church of Christ in Nations in Nigeria's Middle Belt, posted on X that Fulani herdsmen sent a threatening letter to him and his church members vowing to attack and kill him, just as they had killed his relatives. The threat came after gunmen stormed his family's compound in the Riyom district of Plateau State on July 12, killing nine people, a group Fox News Digital reported included what was said to be a two-month-old baby. Dachomo described the attackers arriving at the…Open
‘atrocities are happening’
Experts and policy change-makers tell the Daily Caller that the Nigerian and U.S. governments are failing to confront the primary threat responsible for the killing of Christians in Nigeria. Between 2020 and 2025, more than 22,800 Christians were killed, and nearly 16,000 more were abducted in Nigeria, according to a new report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa. The report found that the group responsible for most of those attacks is not the one drawing the primary focus of either the Nigerian government or the Trump administration. (RELATED: Legacy Media Downplays Christian Persecution In Nigeria After Trump Admin Strikes) That group, the Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM), is responsible for 44 percent of civilian killings…Open
AI:The United States government continues to ignore the systematic slaughter of Nigerian Christians by failing to blacklist terror networks including ISIS, Boko Haram, and Fulani ethnic militias. Despite mounting reports of atrocities and targeted violence against Christian populations, these militant groups have escaped official designation as terrorist entities by American authorities, leaving those advocating for international intervention without the necessary diplomatic or legal tools to halt the ongoing massacres.Open
‘atrocities are happening’
Experts and policy change-makers tell the Daily Caller that the Nigerian and U.S. governments are failing to confront the primary threat responsible for the killing of Christians in Nigeria. Between 2020 and 2025, more than 22,800 Christians were killed, and nearly 16,000 more were abducted in Nigeria, according to a new report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa. The report found that the group responsible for most of those attacks is not the one drawing the primary focus of either the Nigerian government or the Trump administration. (RELATED: Legacy Media Downplays Christian Persecution In Nigeria After Trump Admin Strikes) That group, the Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM), is responsible for 44 percent of civilian killings…Open
'Targeting the wrong people'
Nigerian Christians continue to be killed and abducted in large numbers. The latest attacks came as the church commemorated the first anniversary of the Yelwata massacre, in which Fulani militants killed more than 250 people [...]
Bello Turji is a Fulani warlord commanding more than 1,000 fighters across northwestern Nigeria. For nearly a decade, he has carried out mass kidnappings, extortion, and massacres while evading Nigerian military operations, U.S. airstrikes, and [...]
Amnesty International said about 1,500 people have been detained by the military for three months and that many of those who have died from disease and starvation have been children.
'Gearing up for a massacre'