On 16 October Sunday, two worshippers were killed in an attack by gunmen on a church in Kogi State, Nigeria. Three others were wounded and are receiving treatment at a local medical center.
“Kogi is no longer safe,” said a witness who hid as the attack began.
Kogi State lies in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where Christians are frequently subject to Islamist attacks and kidnappings.
In June 2022 the Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, also in the Middle Belt, the Most Reverend Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso, called on the government to do more to protect vulnerable communities from attack.
“In our country, death has become a daily meal,” he said as he addressed the funeral of Pastor Vitus Borogo, 50, who was killed as he worked on his farm in Kaduna State.