the war has killed more than 520,000 people, displaced millions internally, and forced around seven million into exile. Photo: CIRL

Nigeria: epicenter of a crisis of extermination against Christians. Another village massacred

One of the most haunting testimonies came from Christiana Joseph, who woke on the morning of the attack preparing to attend the 6 a.m. Mass. She remembers the sudden roar of engines circling her compound. Moments later, bursts of gunfire filled the air. By the time silence returned, her husband of fourteen years, John, lay lifeless on the ground. “They surrounded us,” she recounted. “It lasted only minutes, but it destroyed everything.”