Local pastor addresses genocide in native Nigeria (AUDIO)

MANSFIELD — Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released the International Religious Freedom Report for 2019 and many of its findings are grim, especially for the country of Nigeria. Despite being the most populous nation in the world’s most Christian continent, Nigerian Christians are in peril for their very lives.

According to Reverend El Akuchie, who lived in Nigeria for thirty-three years and who serves as Coordinator of the Richland Community Prayer Network, Nigeria is exhibit number one that Islamic jihadists are at war with Bible-believers across the world.

“There is no safe space in this world from sharia law. Since 1999 over one quarter of Nigeria has been transformed into oppressive theocratic states imposing sharia law. Consequently, there is no peace in the country.”

Violent attacks by nomadic Islamic Fulani herdsmen are estimated to have slaughtered a staggering 60,000 Nigerian Christians in the central region of the country since 2001. Recently the Muslim-majority government has committed to providing settlements for the Fulani in all thirty-six states.

Not to be outdone, jihadists from the Boko Haram (translated to: non-Islamic education is sin) have killed over 2,295 teachers, destroyed 1,500 schools, and displaced 19,000 since its insurgency began nine years ago in the north region.

Akuchie has six siblings living in Nigeria. He comments, “To cloud the carnage sharia law in Nigeria, globalists and mainstream media are disingenuously saying climate change is the cause for the violence. To the contrary, the real reason I have not been back to Nigeria since 2007 is not because of weather patterns, it is because of the violent sharia ideology that has brought instability and corruption to the people.”

Sharia law institutes blasphemy laws giving special privilege to Islamic speech while silencing other religious speech. It also enlists girls in the sex slave trade.

Akuchie points out, “If people want to complain about the conditions we have in America, they need to first go to a nation like Nigeria, see what genocide looks like, and then make conclusions for themselves.”

While storm clouds engulf the nation, Akuchie points out there is still hope for Nigeria: hope from above.

“This past Spring, seventy-two Nigerian Christian children were facing a Boko Haram firing squad. The night before, the children in the group said the Lord Jesus appeared to them and told them “not to fear, and that He would protect them.

“As the soldiers prepared to fire at the children that next morning, something happened. The jihadists dropped their rifles and started to grab at their heads, screaming and shouting “Snakes! Snakes!” Some of the soldiers ran off, and others dropped dead.

“In America, we need to remember that GOD is still performing miracles in our day. Jesus is the Resurrection. We must allow Him to resurrect our hearts- we cannot remain silent any longer.”

See the video below on the world’s most persecuted minority.