{"id":26773,"date":"2026-08-14T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26773"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:53:12","slug":"exclusive-nigerian-lawyer-details-harrowing-christian-persecution-a-daily-occurrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/exclusive-nigerian-lawyer-details-harrowing-christian-persecution-a-daily-occurrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Nigerian Lawyer Details Harrowing Christian Persecution: \u2018A Daily Occurrence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheading\">Christians in Nigeria face abductions, torture, rape, and murder on a \u201cdaily\u201d basis at the hands of hordes of armed Fulani jihadists, a lawyer working in the country\u2019s Middle Belt told Breitbart News in an exclusive conversation on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The lawyer, using the pseudonym Jabez Musa to protect himself and his family, shared\u00a0horrifying anecdotes from the local Christians in the region who have survived abductions for ransom, the storming and destruction of their villages, and slaughter of their families, and are demanding the Nigerian government fulfill its constitutional duty to protect citizens. Nigeria has been plagued by jihadist violence against Christians for over a decade, with varying circumstances and perpetrators depending on the region. In the Muslim-majority north, groups such as Boko Haram and Islamic State-affiliated terrorists have fueled an ongoing insurgency with no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2026\/08\/11\/exclusive-nigerian-lawyer-details-harrowing-christian-persecution-a-daily-occurrence\/\">breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d padok\" data-google-query-id=\"CKTO_eH_oJYDFbEXigMdHt4SRw\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in Nigeria face abductions, torture, rape, and murder on a \u201cdaily\u201d basis at the hands of hordes of armed Fulani jihadists, a lawyer working in the country\u2019s Middle Belt told Breitbart News in an exclusive conversation on Monday. The lawyer, using the pseudonym Jabez Musa to protect himself and his family, shared\u00a0horrifying anecdotes from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/exclusive-nigerian-lawyer-details-harrowing-christian-persecution-a-daily-occurrence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exclusive \u2014 Nigerian Lawyer Details Harrowing Christian Persecution: \u2018A Daily Occurrence\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"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-26773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6XP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773","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=26773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26774,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26773\/revisions\/26774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}