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Nigeria, ranked by Open Doors as the sixth most dangerous country in the world for Christians, saw deadly Islamic terrorist attacks over what should have been a peaceful and joyous Christmas weekend.
From Breitbart. The governor of Plateau, Nigeria, denounced on Tuesday, in response to the massacre of at least 160 people during the Christmas weekend, the continuous, long-term occupation of at least 64 Christian communities in his state by presumed Islamist terrorists.
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“When people are dislocated from their villages and they have to run for shelter … if they stay away from those communities for a sustained period of time, the terrorists would come in,” Governor Celeb Mutfwang told the Nigerian outlet Channels TV on Tuesday, according to the newspaper Daily Trust. “As I am talking to you today (Tuesday), in Riyom Local Government, in Barikin Ladi Local Government, schools have been occupied by these terrorists for almost a number of years now.”
“We have not less than 64 communities that have been displaced and their lands have been taken over by these terrorists,” he said. …
Mutfwang lamented the perception that the Nigerian federal government in Abuja, which has been Muslim-led since 2015, has no interest in protecting Christians.
“Under the last regime [of former President Muhammadu Buhari] the feeling among people in Plateau State, particularly the victims of these terrorist attacks, is that it looks as if the terrorists were given official government backing to be able to terrorise them,” the governor denounced, “because little or nothing was done to repel these attacks.” …
Nigerian news outlets reported on Tuesday that local officials in Plateau had confirmed the deaths of at least 160 people and over 300 injured in a series of attacks beginning on Saturday by assailants described as “gunmen” or “bandits,” targeting at least 18 villages and destroying residences and community sites. According to the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard, initial reports of a targeted assault began to surface on Saturday and “gunfire could still be heard on late Monday afternoon throughout the state.”
The Plateau massacres were joined by local reporting documenting similar attacks on churches or Christian populations generally in at least two other states, Ebonyi and Adamawa.
Local government official Monday Kassah told reporters on Monday that authorities believe the Plateau slaughters were “well coordinated,” despite media descriptions of the assailants as “bandits.” In reality, the groups terrorizing Christians in the Middle Belt are more often than not organized jihadist terror gangs belonging to the Fulani ethnic community. …
The Nigerian newspaper Vanguard identified the terrorists as Fulani. …
The Fulani are a majority Muslim ethnic group, one of the largest in Nigeria. Fulani terrorist militias have waged jihad against the Christian communities of Nigeria’s Middle Belt – the states that form the border between the majority Muslim north and majority Christian south – for decades, committing acts of genocide and occupying Christian land left by the dead and displaced.
The Nigerian government has historically done little to protect Christian communities from Fulani terrorists; federal officials initially announced the death toll of the Christmas attacks in Plateau to be just 16 people. …
Nigeria is one of many nations that is extremely dangerous for Christians. Share your prayers for those affected by persecution below.
(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Oleksii Liskonih/Getty Images via Canva pro)
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Lord God, I pray for Holy Spirit to strengthen and comfort the persecuted. Lead them by Your strategies that they may be exceedingly strong in their faith. I ask that You impart revelation to the persecutors of the Truth, Life, and purposes of life in Jesus Christ and that they choose Jesus
Lord I pray for your Nigerian people who are being terrorized by these Muslims. Please put a stop to the killings. There has to be a way. Please show them and may they obey you.
Praying for Nigerian Christians who are driven from their homes, who have witnessed the murder of family members and friends that they will be wrapped in the knowledge of Your peace and presence. Lord, for the widows and orphans who are feeling lonely and afraid for their future, praying for Your miraculous, divine healing and intervention. Father God, praying for Your comfort in their lives through the outreach of the Body of Christ and Christian ministries in helping to meet their many needs. Help them to ultimately love & forgive their persecutors. In Your Compassionate, Healing Name Lord Jesus. Amen.
Oh Lord,
We pray for those who have lost loved ones. Only You, the God of All Comforts, can comfort them at a time like this. Let them know that You are near to the broken-hearted such as never before. We thank You that You are able to bind up their wounds – we plead the blood of Jesus over them to seal off any access by the demonic from the trauma of what their eyes saw, their ears heard, and/or their bodies endured.
We pray that You fill those in leadership with Your wisdom, to know how to take back their land from lawlessness and savagery and bring divine order in their land.
For every single one who has perished at the hands of this evil group, we pray for a mighty harvest of souls from that very group, delivered completely from the demonic lies that fuel them and set mightily free into the Kingdom of God.
We pray for the dismantling of this group from within, that they would unravel as a group due to dissention, confusion, any all manner of distraction, and rendered impotent to do any harm, in Jesus’ name.
John 12:24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints.
Father I come to you in the holy and powerful name of Jesus on behalf of the Nigeria people. Give comfort to the families who’ve lost loved ones in this attack. Bring down the enemy and you did Pharoas army. Dispatch you guardian and warrior angels to protect the living. In Jesus’ name. Thank you Father.
O Father, I pray for your people in Nigeria who are experiencing Satan’s wrath and hatred. I pray you would raise us up to pray and raise up the government to protect them. May those who are injured hold to you in trust and faith. Bring healing to them and help them to forgive. May they know you are with them. May we as Christians in the world who are living without fear of violence, continually lift them up before you.