Armed attackers killed at least nine people in Christian farming communities in Nigeria's Plateau State between 29 October and 3 November, according to community leaders quoted in local reports.
The attacks hit villages in the Barkin Ladi, Mangu and Riyom local government areas. In one attack on Sabon Angwa, victims were reportedly killed in their homes. Community leaders and a local youth group blamed armed Fulani herders, and a Berom youth leader accused an army officer of dismissing the victims as "illegal miners".
A long-running crisis
Nigeria has for years been the most dangerous country in the world to be a Christian. The 2026 World Watch List from the charity Open Doors counted 3,490 Christians killed for their faith in Nigeria — nearly three-quarters of the global total. Aid to the Church in Need's latest Persecuted and Forgotten report names Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as the countries where Christians suffer most.
The violence is also emptying religious communities. The Tablet reported this week that the number of monks at a monastery in Eruku has fallen sharply over three years under the threat of terrorist attack.
Church leaders continue to call on Nigeria's government to protect rural Christian communities and bring the killers to justice, and on Western governments to make religious freedom a condition of their support.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit, The Tablet, Christian Post.
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