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2025-04-26 Africa Subsaharan
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Bloody April for Christians in Nigeria with death toll surpassing 240
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[MBCPATHWAY] More than 240 Christians were massacred in attacks on villages in Plateau and Benue states during Lent and Easter, some as they worshiped, news agencies and religious liberty advocates reported.
In the latest attacks, suspected Fulani
 ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
holy warriors killed at least 72 Christians in villages in Ukum and Logo counties in Benue April 18-20, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported April 22. Thousands fled, added to the many displaced in the region, and the corpse count may rise as authorities search the surrounding forests, ICC said.
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Perhaps the deadliest weekend was Palm Sunday. Initial reports, from ICC, Christian Daily International-Morning Star News and others, were of a pre-dawn attack of more than an hour on Zikke village following Palm Sunday service, killing between 51 and 54 Christians, with a corpse count potentially rising.
In its latest report, ICC said the Palm Sunday massacre extended beyond Zikke village to include attacks on several villages simultaneously, with a corpse count of at least 100. Christians were targeted while worshiping, ICC said, whole communities were razed and many were forced to flee.
Matthew Hassan Kukah, a bishop in Sokoto, described the Zikke attack to the Catholic Herald as ''another tributary of blood'' that will ''link up with older tributaries and continue their flow slowly but surely into an invisible ocean of blood that now threatens to swallow the Plateau.''
The killings followed the slaughter of more than 60 Christians April 2-3 in seven communities in Bokkos County in Plateau, Christian Daily International-Morning Star News reported, when Death Eater Fulani also displaced more than 1,000 residents and destroyed and looted food stores.
The ongoing violence has spurred renewed declarations of genocide, accusations of governmental complacency and indifference, and speculations of Boko Haram
 ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
's revival as religious leaders conduct mass burials and citizens mourn and march in protest. 
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