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Podcast: Closer to the Fire with Greg Musselman
Episode: Nigeria: Record-Setting Pace of Violence Against Christians
Description: Based on stats of the previous year, human rights experts are predicting a record-setting year of violence against Nigeria’s Christians for 2022. The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project recorded a total of 31 attacks on Nigerian churches and Christians throughout 2021. Yet, so far, about halfway through 2022, there have already been more than 23 separate attacks on believers. The deadly raid on a church in southwestern Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday (see this page for details), as well as last month’s kidnapping of Samuel Kanu, the head of Nigeria’s Methodist Church, are two incidents that recently...