{"id":65108,"date":"2025-10-02T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=65108"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:45:15","slug":"there-is-a-strategy-to-annihilate-all-christians-and-islamize-nigeria-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/there-is-a-strategy-to-annihilate-all-christians-and-islamize-nigeria-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Esiste una strategia per annientare tutti i cristiani e islamizzare la Nigeria, afferma un esperto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Some of the coffins of 73 Christians from Benue State, central Nigeria, massacred by Fulani jihadists in 2018. \/ Credit: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 29, 2025 \/ 16:53 pm (CNA). Attacks against Christian communities, especially in northern Nigeria, are not an isolated phenomenon but rather a strategy to \u201cannihilate them all and Islamize the country,\u201d said Emeka Umeagbalasi, a criminologist and researcher.The expert has spent 30 years denouncing human rights violations\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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Attacks against Christian communities, especially in northern Nigeria, are not an isolated phenomenon but rather a strategy to \u201cannihilate them all and Islamize the country,\u201d said Emeka Umeagbalasi, a criminologist and researcher.The expert has spent 30 years denouncing human rights violations\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":104379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1064],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-65108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64804,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/christian-persecution-in-nigeria-1200-churches-destroyed-annually-hundreds-killed\/","url_meta":{"origin":65108,"position":0},"title":"Christian persecution in Nigeria: 1,200 churches destroyed annually, hundreds killed","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Settembre 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Nigerian security officers during a military operation ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Benin City, Edo, Nigeria, on Sept. 17, 2020. \/ Credit: Oluwafemi Dawodu\/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 26, 2025 \/ 15:28 pm (CNA). 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