When will Nigerian Christians start to be counted?
CEN Editorial:
How many more kidnappings and killings before Nigerian Christians start to count?
In April (14) it will be the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian teenage girls by the Islamist group Boko Haram, from a secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State. Since then some escaped, some have died, some have been retried by the security forces but about 100 ofthe girls are missing to this day.
The events of the past week therefore in Northern Nigeria in which an estimated 200 people, mostly women, have been kidnapped from a camp for internally displaced persons, and a further 280 school children taken, is alarming. The latest school abduction saw students, as young as eight-years-old taken by gunmen on motorcycles feared to be from the Islamistterror group, Boko Haram.
Open Doors, says that 37,500 people are estimated to have been killed since the beginning of Boko Haram’s attacks in 2011. It is astonishing that while the streets of our big cities globally are thronged weekly or fortnightly with people protesting about the situation in Gaza, there has never been a mass scale protest at the Nigerian embassy in London over the failure of the country to protect its Christian population from Islamist terrorism.
Church of England Newspaper Editorial March 14
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