{"id":136015,"date":"2025-03-28T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136015"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:53:32","slug":"the-violence-in-nigeria-is-religiously-motivated-says-the-roman-catholic-bishop-of-makurdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136015","title":{"rendered":"The Violence in Nigeria is religiously motivated, says the Roman Catholic Bishop of Makurdi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The forced displacement and killing of Christians in Nigeria is not the product of climate change, or clashes between farmers and herders, but religiously motivated persecution<\/a>, a bishop there said this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RC Bishop of Makurdi, Dr Wilfred Anagbe, whose diocese is in the Middle Belt state of Benue, said on Tuesday that the international community needed to acquire a \u201cclear narrative of what is going on. Previously it has been said it was based on climate change and farmers and herders clashing. . . That is not the reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He spoke of a \u201cclear, orchestrated agenda or plan of Islam to take over the territories\u201d of people who were \u201cpredominantly Christian\u201d. In some parts of Nigeria, villages were being given new Islamic names. \u201cIt is about the conquest and occupation of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change<\/a> was occurring in other countries, without simultaneous forced displacement, he said. Benue State was 99 per cent Christian; its economy was not based on rearing cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The forced displacement and killing of Christians in Nigeria is not the product of climate change, or clashes between farmers and herders, but religiously motivated persecution, a bishop there said this week.https:\/\/t.co\/Qmiq0Lh1aE<\/a><\/p>— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) March 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>