Source: World Watch Monitor, February 23, 2016<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s deadliest terrorist group is not in the Middle East. It\u2019s in Nigeria, where the Islamist insurgency Boko Haram and other forces killed more than 4,000 Christians in 2015.<\/p>\n
That tally was a 62 percent increase from the previous year, according to Open Doors, a global charity that supports Christians in places where their faith exposes them to government, social, or sectarian hostility.<\/p>\n
In response, Nigeria\u2019s largest confederation of Christian churches is, for the first time, jointly endorsing a commitment to revive the Church in the country\u2019s north, before it collapses from a decade of violence that has killed thousands of Christians and driven away more than 1 million.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the Christian Association of Nigeria<\/a> (CAN), has jointly published with Open Doors a detailed study of the violence and its impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n CAN is comprised of councils representing Protestant denominations, indigenous Evangelical churches, Pentecostal churches, and the Catholic Church. Together they encompass about half of Nigeria\u2019s 173 million people.<\/p>\n \u00bb See full story with map and pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: World Watch Monitor, February 23, 2016 The world\u2019s deadliest terrorist group is not in the Middle East. It\u2019s in Nigeria, where the Islamist insurgency Boko Haram and other forces killed more than 4,000 Christians in 2015. That tally was a 62 percent increase from the previous year, according to Open Doors, a global charity … Continue reading NIGERIA: Churches Unite for First Time to Address Violence in North<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7021,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}