{"id":26772,"date":"2025-01-17T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/nigeria-tops-report-for-number-of-christians-killed-kidnapped-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:33:43","slug":"nigeria-tops-report-for-number-of-christians-killed-kidnapped-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/nigeria-tops-report-for-number-of-christians-killed-kidnapped-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria staat bovenaan het rapport voor het aantal gedode en ontvoerde christenen in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Kerk bij het Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna, Nigeria. \/ Credit: Pater Samuel Kanta Sakaba, rector van een Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Rome Newsroom, 15 jan. 2025 \/ 11:20 uur (CNA).<\/p>\n

Nigeria was in 2024 het land waar de meeste christenen werden gedood en ontvoerd, volgens het nieuwste rapport van de belangenorganisatie Open Doors.<\/p>\n

De World Watch List<\/a>, gepubliceerd op 15 januari, stelt vast dat er in 2024 in Nigeria 3.100 christenen werden gedood en 2.830 werden ontvoerd, veel meer dan in andere landen in hetzelfde jaar.<\/p>\n

Het rapport stelt ook dat India in 2024 het land was met de meeste gearresteerde christenen (2.176) en dat Rwanda de meeste aanvallen op christelijke kerken of gebouwen kende, met 4.000 incidenten.<\/p>\n

De ranglijst van Open Doors bevestigt dat de christenvervolging in 2024 \u201cin absolute termen\u201d is blijven groeien in de ongeveer 100 landen die de organisatie monitort, waarbij 13 landen zijn geclassificeerd als landen met \u201cextreme niveaus\u201d van christenvervolging.<\/p>\n

De organisatie schat dat wereldwijd meer dan 380 miljoen christenen minstens een \u201choog niveau\u201d van vervolging en discriminatie ervoeren vanwege hun geloof.<\/p>\n

Noord-Korea, Somali\u00eb, Jemen, Libi\u00eb en Soedan zijn volgens het rapport de top vijf van landen voor christenvervolging in 2024. Nigeria staat op nummer 7 van de ranglijst. Eritrea, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Saoedi-Arabi\u00eb en Myanmar maken de top 13 compleet, die allemaal zijn geclassificeerd als landen met \u201cextreme\u201d niveaus van antichristelijke vervolging.<\/p>\n

Bij de publicatie van de World Watch List 2025 zei Cristian Nani, directeur van Open Doors Itali\u00eb: \u201c380 miljoen christenen in de wereld genieten niet van het fundamentele mensenrecht om te geloven wat ze willen. Hoeveel meer gedode, ontheemde, misbruikte en gevangengezette christenen moeten we nog tellen voordat we godsdienstvrijheid centraal stellen in het publieke debat?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 32 jaar onderzoek registreren we een gestage toename van antichristelijke vervolging in absolute termen,\u201d voegde Nani eraan toe. \u201c2024 is opnieuw een recordjaar van intolerantie: 1 op de 7 christenen lijdt onder discriminatie of vervolging vanwege hun geloof: het is cruciaal om in het publieke debat weer over godsdienstvrijheid te gaan praten.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open Doors, dat vervolgde christenen in meer dan 70 landen ondersteunt, stelt zijn jaarlijkse World Watch List samen op basis van informatie van lokale netwerken, nationale onderzoekers, externe experts en een ad-hoc team van analisten. <\/p>\n

Om de ranglijst op te stellen, analyseert de belangenorganisatie de druk op het leven van een christen op vijf gebieden: priv\u00e9, familie, gemeenschap, kerk en openbaar leven. Geweld wordt als een apart element aan de analyse toegevoegd.<\/p>\n

Nigeria kampt sinds 2009 met geweld door moslimextremisten, gepleegd door groepen zoals Boko Haram, die naar verluidt christenen vervolgen, hen soms ontvoeren voor losgeld en hen in sommige gevallen doden.<\/p>\n

Hoewel een rapport uit 2025 van de pauselijke liefdadigheidsinstelling Kerk in Nood stelt dat de ontvoering van katholieke geestelijken en religieuzen in Nigeria is gedaald van 28 in 2023 naar 12 in 2024, blijft het een van de gevaarlijkste landen om priester of religieus te zijn.<\/p>\n

De laatst ontvoerde religieuzen in Nigeria, zusters Vincentia Maria Nwankwo en Grace Mariette Okoli, die op 7 januari werden ontvoerd uit het Aartsbisdom Onitsha<\/a>, zijn vrijgelaten en verkeren \u201cin goede gezondheid\u201d, aldus de leiding van hun congregatie, de Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ<\/a> (IHM).<\/p>\n

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