“The death toll is 140 and climbing after a series of coordinated attacks” on Christians. “They attacked 20 Christian communities in Central Nigeria, raiding and burning homes while civilians were asleep. 300 are injured and 221 homes are destroyed. The authorities did not respond for over 12 hours, a source has told AP. In the past 2 decades, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been killed by Jihadists and another 5 million have been displaced.”

Nigeria is about 50% Muslim and 40% Christian. It has a Muslim north and a mostly Christian south. In the center of the country, there are conflicts between Christian farmers and Muslim herders from the Fulani ethnic group. The Fulani herders sometimes kill the Christian farmers.

[We have a friend traveling in Nigeria for a family event at the moment. Pray for the Christians in Nigeria in this moment, and in the deeper sense of the danger in which they live. — Ed]