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Gunmen massacred and executed dozens of people in two Muslim-majority villages in Nigeria’s western Kwara state after residents refused to accept their extremist preaching, according to reports.
Suspected Fulani militias in Kaduna state, Nigeria raided three church worship services on Sunday in what local leaders said could be the largest mass kidnapping of Christian farmers in the area. However, government officials "dismissed the reports of kidnappings as fear-mongering."
A Muslim police force in Nigeria is holding a 15-year-old Christian girl who has been missing since Dec. 1. Her family fears she'll be forcefully converted to Islam.
The 2026 World Watch List, recently released by Open Doors US, a U.S.-based persecution watchdog group, found that approximately 388 million Christians around the world face some form of intense persecution or discrimination for following Jesus Christ.
Fulani herdsmen in Benue state, Nigeria, killed four Christians on Monday and nine others on Jan. 5-6, sources said.
A U.S.-based nonprofit watchdog organization dedicated to tracking global Christian persecution released its latest findings documenting nearly 3,000 verified abductions and close to 2,000 killings of Christians because of religious violence worldwide over the past two years.
U.S. military forces conducted airstrikes against ISIS militants in northwest Nigeria on Christmas Day, marking a symbolically timed military action in what President Donald Trump described as a "powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum."
