The Crisis
In Northern Nigeria, following Jesus can cost a person everything. Families are driven from their land and homes. Churches and schools are burned. Believers are too often killed for their faith.
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This is not history. It is happening now — to real people.
The persecution
Northern Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. More believers are killed here than in any other country. In fact, 72% of all the Christians killed in the world were killed in northern Nigeria. Much of the region lives under Sharia law, where leaving Islam for Christ can be punished by death — so faith often stays hidden, even from family. For more than two decades, groups like Boko Haram have killed, abducted, and burned churches and schools, emptying whole villages and forcing millions into displacement camps.
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Behind every number is a person. Widows. Orphans. Farmers. Pastors. Children who have seen more than any child should. They are not a cause. They are why this ministry exists.
By the numbers
5,068
62,000
90%
Christians killed in Nigeria in 2022 — more than in any other country in the world.
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—The Christian Post
Killed by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the surrounding region since 2002.
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—Hudson Institute
Of the ~5,500 Christians killed for their faith worldwide in 2022, nine in ten were in Nigeria.
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—International Christian Concern
2,200
3.6M
~18,000
Christians abducted in the first four months of 2021 alone.
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—Intersociety
People displaced and living in camps as of 2022.
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—Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Churches and schools have been attacked in Nigeria since 2015.
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—VOA News
Why it matters
It's easy to read numbers like these and feel them slide past. Six figures, a few sources, scroll on. That is the danger of a crisis this large — it can stop feeling like people.
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So this is the part that matters most: every number above has a face we have chosen not to show you, and a name we will not print. Not because the story isn't real, but because telling it carelessly could get someone killed. That restraint is the point. It is how we honor the people we serve.
Walking with the persecuted
We come alongside widows, orphans, the displaced, and the grieving with real, practical care — food, shelter, presence, and time.
Carrying the love of Jesus Christ
We bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to Muslims across the region, gently and at real cost. Neither calling comes before the other.
You don't have to fix this. You couldn't from where you sit, and we would never ask you to. But you can refuse to look away. You can pray. You can learn the names of ministries doing the work. And you can help carry the weight, so that the people in these camps and villages know they have not been forgotten.
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Awareness is where response begins. Thank you for not scrolling past.