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Nigerian Bishop: "Conquest Plan To Eliminate the Christian Population"

What is happening to Christians in Nigeria is "genocide" and "a religious war", Bishop Wilfred Anagbe, 60, of Makurdi, Nigeria, told Il Tempo on 1 September.

His diocese is in Benue State where 95% of the population is Christian. The area has become one of the most dangerous in the country: "The attackers — Muslims from outside the region — destroy churches, kill defenceless residents, force others to flee, burn their lands and then return to occupy them."

Monsignor Anagbe speaks of "a plan of conquest" that also includes non-violent methods, such as renaming villages with Arabic words or closing schools during Ramadan: "Schools are not closed in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, so why are they closed in Nigeria?"

During the Yelewata massacre in June, 200 Christians were killed. Bishop Anagbe recalls: "They set fire to a room, burning everyone inside alive, including two children aged three and five months. A mother who had sought refuge on a roof was forced to witness the massacre of her five children, and in her despair she threw herself down."

Attacks happen daily in the villages: "We have testimonies of pregnant women being disembowelled by terrorists who then cast aside their unborn babies."

Monsignor Anagbe also warns that the problem affects Europe too: "We have seen how Islamic radicalism has taken root in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom."

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All we hear about are the starving elderly Jewish ladies whose families were killed by Hitler. The murdering of Catholics TODAY is hardly ever covered. Shame on the news networks.