ICC Note: Churches in northern Nigeria are bankding together for the first time to pressure the Nigerian government and the global community to take the present Boko Haram threat more seriously. Christians have faced the brunt of the radical Islamists’ fury threatened with murder, rape, abduction, destruction of churches and property, and displacement. While the near seven-year insurgency accounts for almost 20,000 deaths, the majority of those are followers of Christ targeted for their faith.

2/25/16 Nigeria (World Watch Monitor) – The world’s deadliest terrorist group is not in the Middle East. It’s in Nigeria, where the Islamist insurgency Boko Haram and other forces killed more than 4,000 Christians in 2015.

That tally was a 62 per cent increase from the previous year, according to Open Doors, a global charity that supports Christians in places where their faith exposes them to government, social or sectarian hostility.

In response, Nigeria’s largest confederation of Christian churches is, for the first time, jointly endorsing a commitment to revive the Church in the country’s north, before it collapses from a decade of violence that has killed thousands of Christians and driven away more than 1 million.

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