Shock Report Finds at Least 1000 Christians Have Been Killed in Nigeria During 2019

Sudanese Rebel Groups Arm Themselves As Peace Process Falters — ULANG, SUDAN- SEPTEMBER 7: Rebel Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) fighters investigate an abandoned village looted and burned by government supported Janjaweed militiamen near their base in the Darfur region of Sudan, September 7, 2004. in Ulang, Sudan. . Both rebel groups, the JEM, and the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) continue to abide by a current ceasefire and are participating in talks with the Sudanese government in neighboring Nigeria, but are growing increasingly frustrated by the government's failure to reign in the janjaweed militia and warn of impending military action if the violence in the region does not end soon.(Photo by Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

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A new report into the persecution of Nigeria’s Christian community has found that around 1,000 believers have been killed by Islamic militants over during 2019 alone.

The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), headed up by a member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Cox, discovered that believers in the North and Central region of the West African nation were the most severely affected.

“Islamist Fulani militia continue to engage in an aggressive and strategic land grabbing policy in Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Southern Kaduna and parts of Bauchi state,” reads the report, which has been titled “Your Land or Your Body.”

“They attack rural villages, force villagers off their lands and settle in their place — a strategy that is epitomized by the phrase: ‘your land or your blood.’” Continue reading…