---NIGERIA~~

~~Report Reveals at Least
1,000 Christians Killed in 2019 ~

A new report from the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust estimates that more than 1,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria last year.

HART, a U.K.-based nonprofit that tracks persecution around the world, is led by Baroness Caroline Cox, a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. Cox says that Fulani herdsmen are the major perpetrators in the killing of Christians in Nigeria, although terrorist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for several attacks against Christians in Borno State.

"Islamist Fulani militia continue to engage in an aggressive and strategic land grabbing policy in Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Southern Kaduna and parts of Bauchi state," the report reads. "They attack rural villages, force villagers off their lands and settle in their place-a strategy that is epitomized by the phrase: 'your land or your blood.'"

Fulani herdsmen are a predominantly Muslim nomadic people group of about 20 million across West and Central Africa. ~~

--[Please pray for our brothers and sisters-in-Christ. Pray for their safety and their strength to overcome this tragic killing. Thank you,] ~~

--DECISION/ February 2020