A new report suggests Nigerian Christians are suffering disproportionately compared to Muslim victims in targeted killings and massacres spearheaded by Nigeria’s Islamic terror groups.
The study, published by Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA), discovered that between October 2019 and September 2025, the death rate of Christians was approximately 4.4 times higher than Muslims, adjusting for the size of religious populations in states affected by the attacks.
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Within the six-year period, some 28,000 Christians were murdered throughout Nigeria while some 13,000 Muslims were killed. The 105-page study recorded nearly 35,000 in civilian kidnappings across all civilian groups, with each group being abducted with nearly equal numbers.
The report referred to another ORFA article examining the treatment of hostages and the “religious hierarchy of human worth embedded in the operational logic of Fulani Ethnic Militias.”
The article examined field interviews, interviews with a retired security official and a named survivor as well as other ORFA research and asserts that Christian and Muslim hostages often faced different treatment when in captivity.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Hannah Davis and originally published Decision Magazine.
