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*Report: Islamic jihadists destroy 100 Christian churches monthly in Nigeria*
*by* *WorldTribune* *Staff, September 17, 2025 *Real World News <www.worldtribune.com/about/>
Christianity has been under heavy attack in Nigeria since 2009.
In that time, 125,009 Christians in the country have been killed by jihadists and 100 churches are destroyed monthly, according to a report by the Nigeria-based NGO International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety).
[image: http://worldtribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/christnsnigeria.jpg]‘Unless something serious and urgent is done, there will be no traces of Christianity in Nigeria in the next 50 to 100 years.’ / Facebook
Last month, Intersociety reported that at least 7,087 Christians were massacred across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025—an average of 32 Christians killed per day.
The report said 19,100 churches have come under attack since 2009, which was the same year Boko Haram insurgents began their murderous campaign aimed at installing a caliphate across the Sahel.
“Razing or sacking of an estimated 19,100 churches shows that apart from the 13,000 churches attacked, burnt, or violently shut down between July 2009 and December 2014, an additional 6,100 have been lost to Islamic jihadists since mid-2015 in Taraba, Adamawa, Kebbi, Borno, Katsina, Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Yobe, Southern Kaduna, and Gombe,” Intersociety chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi told Crux.
Umeagbalasi explained how his organization came about the numbers:
“What we did was to look at the number of churches that were attacked, including those destroyed or shut down. Because a church cannot just force itself down. Something violent must have happened for that church to be deserted or to be shut down. So what we did was to look at the number of churches that was shut down in the past 16 years. And we got it at approximately 19, 100.
“So after dividing the 19,100 into 16, it gave us approximately 1,200 per year, 100 per month and more than 3 per day.”
The report also stated that 7,899 others were abducted for being Christian. According to Umeagbalasi, the killings and abductions are driven by some 22 jihadist groups that have made the West African nation their home.
Umeagbalasi told Crux that these statistics are indicative of “the danger inherent in practicing Christianity in Nigeria … It also lends credence to our position that unless something serious and urgent is done, there will be no traces of Christianity in Nigeria in the next 50 to 100 years.”
Umeagbalasicited today’s Turkey as a prime example. Anatolia was the heartland of the Byzantine Empire, the dominant Christian power in the Eastern Mediterranean for centuries. It contained countless churches, cathedrals, and monasteries.
But starting in the 14th century, the Ottomans launched what Umeagbalasi describes as a “Jihad war” against the Byzantines. It let to the capture of Constantinople – now Istanbul – in 1453, and proceeded to convert Byzantine churches into mosques.
It was the same thing in Asyut, Egypt where an AD 641 Arab conquest resulted in the repurposing of some Christian churches. Umeagbalasi said the Muslim Brotherhood and other jihadist groups later launched “coordinated and systematic attacks on those that profess Christianity, especially the Coptic Christians.”
“Today, if you go to Asyut, it’s not only that many Christians from that area have fled the country and settled in different parts of the world, like Europe and America, but also the tens of thousands have been forced into being converted to Islam. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands have been forcibly converted to Islam and thousands killed in the past 20-30 years,” he told Crux.
He said the same pattern of Muslims taking over Christian communities is being repeated in Nigeria-the African country with the largest number of Christians.
“You can understand why all these jihadist groups have relocated to Nigeria and the jihadists have also risen to state power in Nigeria,” Umeagbalasi said.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, has introduced legislation designed to keep Christians in Nigeria safe.
The Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025 was introduced by Cruz on Sept. 11. It requires that the Secretary of State designates the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, as well as keep Islamist terrorist groups Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa designated as entities of particular concern.
“Nigerian Christians are being targeted and executed for their faith by Islamist terrorist groups, and are being forced to submit to sharia law and blasphemy laws across Nigeria,” Cruz said. “It is long past time to impose real costs on the Nigerian officials who facilitate these activities and my Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act uses new and existing tools to do exactly that. I urge my colleagues to advance this critical legislation expeditiously.”
Umeagbalasi has welcomed the legislation saying it was “a morale booster” to all those fighting to keep Nigeria’s Christians safe.
*Report: Islamic jihadists destroy 100 Christian churches monthly in Nigeria*
*by* *WorldTribune* *Staff, September 17, 2025 *Real World News <www.worldtribune.com/about/>
Christianity has been under heavy attack in Nigeria since 2009.
In that time, 125,009 Christians in the country have been killed by jihadists and 100 churches are destroyed monthly, according to a report by the Nigeria-based NGO International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety).
[image: http://worldtribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/christnsnigeria.jpg]‘Unless something serious and urgent is done, there will be no traces of Christianity in Nigeria in the next 50 to 100 years.’ / Facebook
Last month, Intersociety reported that at least 7,087 Christians were massacred across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025—an average of 32 Christians killed per day.
The report said 19,100 churches have come under attack since 2009, which was the same year Boko Haram insurgents began their murderous campaign aimed at installing a caliphate across the Sahel.
“Razing or sacking of an estimated 19,100 churches shows that apart from the 13,000 churches attacked, burnt, or violently shut down between July 2009 and December 2014, an additional 6,100 have been lost to Islamic jihadists since mid-2015 in Taraba, Adamawa, Kebbi, Borno, Katsina, Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Yobe, Southern Kaduna, and Gombe,” Intersociety chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi told Crux.
Umeagbalasi explained how his organization came about the numbers:
“What we did was to look at the number of churches that were attacked, including those destroyed or shut down. Because a church cannot just force itself down. Something violent must have happened for that church to be deserted or to be shut down. So what we did was to look at the number of churches that was shut down in the past 16 years. And we got it at approximately 19, 100.
“So after dividing the 19,100 into 16, it gave us approximately 1,200 per year, 100 per month and more than 3 per day.”
The report also stated that 7,899 others were abducted for being Christian. According to Umeagbalasi, the killings and abductions are driven by some 22 jihadist groups that have made the West African nation their home.
Umeagbalasi told Crux that these statistics are indicative of “the danger inherent in practicing Christianity in Nigeria … It also lends credence to our position that unless something serious and urgent is done, there will be no traces of Christianity in Nigeria in the next 50 to 100 years.”
Umeagbalasicited today’s Turkey as a prime example. Anatolia was the heartland of the Byzantine Empire, the dominant Christian power in the Eastern Mediterranean for centuries. It contained countless churches, cathedrals, and monasteries.
But starting in the 14th century, the Ottomans launched what Umeagbalasi describes as a “Jihad war” against the Byzantines. It let to the capture of Constantinople – now Istanbul – in 1453, and proceeded to convert Byzantine churches into mosques.
It was the same thing in Asyut, Egypt where an AD 641 Arab conquest resulted in the repurposing of some Christian churches. Umeagbalasi said the Muslim Brotherhood and other jihadist groups later launched “coordinated and systematic attacks on those that profess Christianity, especially the Coptic Christians.”
“Today, if you go to Asyut, it’s not only that many Christians from that area have fled the country and settled in different parts of the world, like Europe and America, but also the tens of thousands have been forced into being converted to Islam. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands have been forcibly converted to Islam and thousands killed in the past 20-30 years,” he told Crux.
He said the same pattern of Muslims taking over Christian communities is being repeated in Nigeria-the African country with the largest number of Christians.
“You can understand why all these jihadist groups have relocated to Nigeria and the jihadists have also risen to state power in Nigeria,” Umeagbalasi said.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, has introduced legislation designed to keep Christians in Nigeria safe.
The Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025 was introduced by Cruz on Sept. 11. It requires that the Secretary of State designates the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, as well as keep Islamist terrorist groups Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa designated as entities of particular concern.
“Nigerian Christians are being targeted and executed for their faith by Islamist terrorist groups, and are being forced to submit to sharia law and blasphemy laws across Nigeria,” Cruz said. “It is long past time to impose real costs on the Nigerian officials who facilitate these activities and my Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act uses new and existing tools to do exactly that. I urge my colleagues to advance this critical legislation expeditiously.”
Umeagbalasi has welcomed the legislation saying it was “a morale booster” to all those fighting to keep Nigeria’s Christians safe.
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