{"id":15583,"date":"2024-03-26T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/christian-persecution-in-nigeria-intensifies-as-colleges-reportedly-ban-christian-worship\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:24:23","slug":"christian-persecution-in-nigeria-intensifies-as-colleges-reportedly-ban-christian-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/christian-persecution-in-nigeria-intensifies-as-colleges-reportedly-ban-christian-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Persecution in Nigeria Intensifies as Colleges Reportedly Ban Christian Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>With persecution intensifying in Nigeria, many Christians face amplified social pressures.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example centers on two government colleges. Sean Nelson, legal counsel for ADF International, warns of dangerous, anti-Christian bias on these campuses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in Nigeria, just generally, is a very, very difficult situation for Christians, in particular, especially in the northern part of the country,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cNigeria [is] the largest democracy in Africa. \u2026 It\u2019s roughly equally divided between Christians and Muslims, with the northern portion of the country being predominantly Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in that region where many Christians become \u201cmarginalized\u201d and face discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson and ADF International are now sounding the alarm over two universities \u2014 one federal and one state \u2014 that have reportedly barred Christian students from \u201cbeing able to use any facilities for worship [or] fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch him explain:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Horrors, Christian Persecution in Nigeria: Experts Sound Alarm\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ByyAv_taTD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe reason you know it\u2019s discrimination is that \u2026 the Muslim students are completely allowed to use all of these facilities,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re preventing Christians from using those spaces, from worshipping on campus, having fellowship; they have to go off campus to do that. It\u2019s just plain discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelson said such restrictions are a total violation of Nigeria\u2019s constitution, which protects freedom of religion and belief. But, as CBN News has extensively reported, Christians aren\u2019t only facing social pressure; some are facing violence and death, with officials failing to uphold protections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you combine [the college issue] with some of the targeted killings that Christians are facing all across the north \u2014 there\u2019s been hundreds of kidnappings recently just the last couple weeks,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really horrible situation for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelson said the government in Nigeria isn\u2019t prosecuting people who commit such horrific crimes, citing the case of Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a Christian and a Shehu Shagari College of Education student in Sokoto, Nigeria, who was brutally murdered May 12, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The violent attack was purportedly filmed and shared on social media, but Nelson said no one was held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is ever punished,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cIn Deborah\u2019s case, they arrested two attackers \u2026 and they release them a year later for failure to prosecute, and so they are free. No one has been held accountable for that. No one is ever held accountable for any of these kinds of attacks.<\/p>\n<p>As CBN News recently reported,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoors.org\/en-US\/\">Open Doors\u2019 World Watch List 2024<\/a>\u00a0placed\u00a0<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2023\/11\/22\/100000-christians-have-been-murdered-inside-deadly-persecution-raging-inside-nigeria\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2023\/11\/22\/100000-christians-have-been-murdered-inside-deadly-persecution-raging-inside-nigeria\/\">Nigeria in the sixth spot<\/a>\u00a0in its rankings of nations where anti-Christian persecution and discrimination are the worst. A line from a press release announcing the results read, \u201cMore than 82% of Christians killed across the globe for faith reasons were in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaith-related killings in sub-Saharan Africa far outstripped those of any other region on the annual<br \/>list,\u201d the release continued. \u201cThis has been a trend for several years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other persecution watchdogs have come to similar conclusions. Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC) and one of the world\u2019s most knowledgeable experts on religious freedom and persecution, told CBN News last year that his organization\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.org\/projects\/poy\/\">\u201c2023 Persecutors of the Year\u201d report<\/a>\u00a0also reveals the full scope of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Americans have no idea what\u2019s going on in Nigeria, but imagine this: for the last 20 years, probably up to about 100,000 Christians have been murdered,\u201d King said. \u201cThree-and-a-half million Christians, their lands have been taken from them, and the government\u2019s pretty much done nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the dire situation in Nigeria\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2023\/11\/22\/100000-christians-have-been-murdered-inside-deadly-persecution-raging-inside-nigeria\/#:~:text=Inside%20Nigeria%20%E2%80%93%20Faithwire-,'100%2C000%20Christians%20Have%20Been%20Murdered'%3A%20Inside,Deadly%20Persecution%20Raging%20Inside%20Nigeria&amp;text=Nigeria%20has%20become%20a%20hotbed,in%20a%20truly%20precarious%20predicament.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>***As the number of voices facing big-tech censorship continues to grow, please sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0and download the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbn-apps#cbn-news\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBN News app<\/a>, to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.***<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2024\/march\/christian-persecution-in-nigeria-intensifies-as-colleges-reportedly-ban-christian-worship\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With persecution intensifying in Nigeria, many Christians face amplified social pressures. The latest example centers on two government colleges. Sean Nelson, legal counsel for ADF International, warns of dangerous, anti-Christian bias on these campuses. Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d: \u201cThe situation in Nigeria, just generally, is a very, very difficult situation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}