Despite Terror Threats Nigeria’s Christians Celebrate Christmas

Despite Terror Threats Nigeria’s Christians Celebrate Christmas
A Christmas choral group in Yola, Nigeria on Dec. 18, 2021. Tom Garba/The Epoch Times
Douglas Burton
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Throughout Nigeria’s troubled northern states Christian believers headed to church on Christmas eve with brave faces.

Even in the northernmost state of Sokoto, the heart of Nigeria’s Islamic region, more than 5,000 Christians are heading to church this week, according to Rev. Oro Yakubu, administrator of 30 congregations of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA).

Douglas Burton
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Douglas Burton is a former U.S. State Department official who was stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq. He writes news and commentary from Washington, D.C.
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