Persecuted 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post about Nigerian Christians)

“I stand here for pleading the government of U.S.,” Rebecca Sharibu said in tears and broken English . . Please, help me. I need my daughter back. I need my daughter.”

Boko Haram kidnapped another 110 girls in February of 2018. Rebecca's daughter, Leah, is the only one who has not yet returned to her home. According to a family friend: "When [Leah] was told to renounce her faith and recite the Kalima-e-Shahadah — ’Kalima-e-Shahadah’ means the Islamic faith creed — she refused to do that . . . That was the only reason that she was kept back.”


Alheri Magaji says her tribe is nearly extinct. Almost 400 people of her mostly-Christian Adara tribe were killed by Fulani herdsmen (a Muslim tribe) just months ago. 

The Nigerian government describes the Fulani attacks as merely “retaliatory.” But Magaji said the Adara people never have attacked the Fulani.

She, like Rebecca, also pleads for U.S. intervention. She says, "There seems to be a systematic plan to take over . . Nigeria as a whole. It is purely religious. Purely. I’m living this. It’s not something I read in the newspaper. It’s what we’re living."

(Note: the linked story is graphic)