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In a deeply moving Easter Monday message released today, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has issued an urgent call to action to every true Christian in Nigeria and Igbo Land, warning that the Christian Faith—as well as Jewish and Traditional Religions—could face total extinction within the next 50 years, by the year 2075.

Drawing from rich historical and religious contexts, Intersociety reminded Nigerians of the sacred roots of Christianity, dating back to the post-resurrection era around AD 35, when the Church of Jesus Christ was founded. The organization traced the lineage from the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ under Roman rule to the rise of the Catholic Church under Saint Peter. Yet today, Intersociety lamented, the Christian Faith faces existential threats unprecedented in its 2,000-year history.

According to the message, delivered by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Intersociety Chairman and veteran researcher/investigator, and Chinwe Umeche, Esq., Head of Democracy and Governance, the challenges facing Christianity in Nigeria are systematic, well-coordinated, and heavily funded. These threats are not just incidental but deliberate efforts to uproot, vanquish, and replace Christianity with Islamic Sultanates and Caliphates across Nigeria, including the traditionally Christian-dominated South-East and South-South regions.

“The stark reality before us as Christians in Nigeria and Igbo Land,” the message stated, “is that Christianity is steadily facing systematic, heavily funded, untamed, and uncontrollable threats of extinction.”

The warning comes against a backdrop of staggering statistics. Since the outbreak of the Boko Haram insurgency in July 2009, an estimated 40 million indigenous Northern Christians have been displaced. Many have fled ancestral homes and sacred sites to avoid death at the hands of jihadist militants, often operating with little to no interference from Nigerian state security apparatuses.

Intersociety reported that thousands of Christian communities and villages have been destroyed, Islamically renamed, and occupied. Over 19,000 churches and 3,000 Christian schools have been vandalized, torched, or demolished. In the first four months of 2025 alone, between 1,500 and 2,000 Christians were gruesomely killed by jihadist Fulani herdsmen and bandits across Benue, Plateau, and Southern Kaduna States.

The situation is no less dire in Nigeria’s South-East. Since mid-2015, an estimated 20,300 defenseless Igbo and other citizens have been killed largely on the basis of their Christian faith and ethnic identity, victims of either militant attacks or brutal repression by federally deployed security forces.

Worryingly, the Easter message emphasized, this is not merely a Northern Nigerian issue. The crisis is creeping southwards, with states in the Middle Belt and even parts of the South-West experiencing similar patterns of violence, displacement, and cultural erasure.

“Christianity; likewise Jewish and Traditional worshipping may vanish or be vanquished in the coming 50 years or by Year 2075,” the message warned. “This would be followed catastrophically by the entire eleven states of the South-South and South-East with over 95% Christian population.”

Intersociety accused Christian clergies and congregants alike of growing complacency, prioritizing materialism and personal ambition over the protection and propagation of their faith. The organization stressed that preserving the Christian Faith is a “divine and solemn task”—an urgent mission requiring not just spiritual dedication, but lawful physical, material, and creative action.

A Call for Urgent and Lawful Action

The Easter Monday message thus serves as a profound call to arms—not of violence, but of moral courage, advocacy, lawful resistance, and renewed evangelism. Every Christian in Nigeria, Intersociety said, must rise to protect the Faith from the forces seeking its eradication.

Beyond raising alarm, Intersociety underscored its track record of monitoring and exposing religious persecution across Nigeria since 2010. Their findings are drawn from multiple credible sources, including international Christian organizations, government officials, human rights groups, and religious freedom researchers.

Concluding their Easter message, Emeka Umeagbalasi and Chinwe Umeche extended warm greetings and heartfelt wishes for a blessed Easter Monday to Christians across Nigeria, urging them to reflect deeply on their divine duty to Christendom.

The Road Ahead

As Nigeria navigates its complex socio-political and religious future, the warning from Intersociety cannot be taken lightly. The possibility of Christianity’s extinction within the nation’s borders would mark a devastating cultural and spiritual loss—not only for Nigeria but for Africa and the global Christian community.

The next 50 years, it seems, will be decisive.

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