ICC Note: A Christian woman in Nigeria narrates her traumatic story after she was captured with her children by Boko Haram. The Islamic radicals demanded her to convert to Islam, but they killed her 3-year-old son and abused her because she refused. She escaped after two years and is now sharing her testimony with the world to show the challenges Christian women face in Nigeria.

2/27/2018 Nigeria (Christian Post) –  A Christian woman who had to watch her 3-year-old son drown in a river before she was raped and forced to carry the child of a Boko Haram fighter in Nigeria, shared her traumatic story with Pope Francis at the Vatican.

On a special night highlighting Christian persecution, where Rome’s Colosseum was lit up in red colors for awareness, Rebecca Bitrus told Francis about the horrors she has suffered, as reported by Crux.

Bitrus revealed on Saturday that while her husband managed to escape in August 2014 when Boko Haram, the Islamic radical group, attacked the small town in Nigeria where they lived, she and her two young children were captured.

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