At the end of June, villages were destroyed in northern Nigeria and 200 Christians killed while about 3,000 were displaced - which means they ran from their homes. Non-profit Open Doors came in to the extremely unstable area to help. A report from one of their staff:
"The displaced Christians were in a pathetic situation . . Life has become a living hell for them. They have lost loved ones, houses, and all they labored for in the twinkling of an eye. The agony they are going through is hard to describe. We saw people who were still in a haze over what they have just gone through. Children were crying hysterically, perhaps because of hunger or perhaps because of hunger and the trauma.”
The Open Doors team brought rice, oil, tomato paste, toiletries the next day. One of the displaced victims, Mary, wrote a thank you message and also said:
“My prayer is this: Wherever these resources are coming from, may God pay you back a thousand-fold . . We plead that believers all over the world will pray that God will bring an end to all these killings because we have become homeless, fatherless and orphaned due to the attacks."
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