Senior leaders of tens of thousands of Nigerian Christians in the UK have had a letter published in the Times today appreciating that “the claim that Nigeria’s Christians are being targeted is at last being taken seriously”. They write of being told “of Christians from Benue state witnessing their families being killed in cold blood by militant Fulanis, who shout “We will destroy all Christians!” Believers kidnapped by Boko Haram were told by their captors: “If you were Muslim, you wouldn’t be tortured like this.”
They ask for the witness of Christians there to be taken seriously that they are facing a deliberate campaign to erase them from their land.
Pastor Akinola Abiona, New Covenant Church, Equipping People, Croydon; Pastor Ayo Adedoyin, CEO, PSJUK, a UK charity advocating for peace and social justice in Nigeria; Archbishop Doye Teido Agama, founder, Apostolic Pastoral Congress; James Aladiran, founder, Prayer Storm; Henrietta Blyth, CEO, Open Doors UK; the Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana, Baptist minister; Ade Omooba, director, Christian Concern; Dr Jonathan Oloyede, convener, National Day of Prayer; the Rev David Shosanya, Paideia Ministries
Read the Times December 6 (£) here