At least 3,462 Christians, including ten priests or pastors, were murdered in Nigeria in the first 200 days of 2021.

The number, just 68 deaths short to the estimated total for the whole of 2020, is aligned with the warnings from human rights organisations that focus on anti-Christian persecution regarding the rise of religious-motivated violence in Nigeria, and a nation where the Christian and Muslim populations are widely considered as more or less evenly split.

According to a recent report coming from Nigeria itself produced by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, the number of unarmed Christians who were murdered by members of the Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram or other Jihadist groups between Jan. 1 to July 18, 2021, is barely lower to the one estimated by Open Door’s International for 2020.