ICC Note: 

Children in Nigeria are suffering  the most by  Boko Haram’s relentless persecution of Christians. Thousands are in camps and orphanages and millions suffer from famine and diseases.  It is a painful reality, especial during  the season when we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Please remember the children of Nigeria this season and pray for them. If  you feel lead to give toward our project for children in Nigeria, please go to our site and give to our Kids Care fund. Our latest project that is being developed is a school for  Chibok children who live in camps after being displaced by Boko Haraam’s attack in their villages.  We hope the school will open in January. This will be the only school available to these children and any amount will help provide free education for those who have been deprived of the one of the things that will take them out out poverty, education.  

11/28/2016 Nigeria (World Watch Monitor) – Seventy-five thousand children are at risk of dying of hunger in north-east Nigeria, reports the UN, as the region deals with the aftermath of Boko Haram violence.

The UN also says that as many as 14 million people are in need of humanitarian aid in that region, the epicentre of the seven-year insurgency which has claimed more than 20,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million people in Nigeria and neighbouring countries (Niger, Cameroon and Chad).

The Islamist group captured large parts of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in Nigeria’s northeast, and in June 2014 declared a caliphate, with the town of Gwoza as its capital, before being pushed back in recent months.

Christians have paid a particularly heavy price. Open Doors, a global charity which supports Christians under pressure for their faith, estimates that, between 2006 and 2015, at least 15,500 Christians have died in religion-based violence in Nigeria’s north. It also says 13,000 churches were destroyed, abandoned or closed between 2006-14, and that 1.3 million Christians fled to safer regions in the country during that same period.

In 2015-16, the situation worsened as violence spilled over into neighbouring Chad and Cameroon.

In 2014, Boko Haram was named the world’s deadliest terror group, ahead of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, according to the Global Terrorism Index.

“Christians in Borno State are traumatised, displaced and truly they have lost hope. In the Gwoza area there is no single church standing. In the eastern part of Gwoza, Christians were a majority. And even inside Gwoza town, and in its surroundings, there were many Christians. Now there are no Christians left in that area,” Bishop William Naga, leader of the Borno chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), told World Watch Monitor

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