{"id":25731,"date":"2025-05-03T04:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25731"},"modified":"2025-05-03T04:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:27:23","slug":"islamic-attacks-on-nigerian-christians-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/islamic-attacks-on-nigerian-christians-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Attacks on Nigerian Christians Escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Christians are facing one of the most violent years in two decades of genocide by Islamic jihadis, according to a Christian advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Between January and the close of April, International Christian Concern (ICC) says that it had documented \u201ca dramatic rise in attacks against Christian communities in Nigeria.\u201d In the span of a little over three months, ICC soberly\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.org\/2025\/04\/25\/icc-reports-surge-in-attacks-on-christians-in-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, over 300 Christians were killed. Dozens more were abducted while thousands were displaced as Islamic jihadi violence continues to escalate in Nigeria. Unfortunately, Nigerian authorities still largely fail to address the raging violence or help its victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/catherinesalgado\/2025\/05\/01\/islamic-attacks-on-nigerian-christians-escalate-n4939396\">pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Christians are facing one of the most violent years in two decades of genocide by Islamic jihadis, according to a Christian advocacy group. Between January and the close of April, International Christian Concern (ICC) says that it had documented \u201ca dramatic rise in attacks against Christian communities in Nigeria.\u201d In the span of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/islamic-attacks-on-nigerian-christians-escalate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islamic Attacks on Nigerian Christians Escalate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6H1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25732,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions\/25732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}