REAL GENOCIDE: Islamic Group Demolishes Nigerian Church, Erases Christian Villages, Escalates Mass Abductions, Local Clergy Denounce Genocide

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Boko Haram destroyed an EYN (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) church in Hong, Adamawa State, on Oct. 8, and local church officials report abductions of students and farmers and eight Christian communities emptied.

TruthNigeria: Rev. Mannaseh Mbafe, secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Hong chapter, confirmed the attack. “What we are passing through is a systematic and calculated genocide against indigenous Christians,” he told TruthNigeria. “Thousands have been displaced. We have been conducting mass burials of Christians. Eight Christian communities have already been completely displaced. Our communities that are being erased are 100 percent Christian. We have lost count of loved ones lost to Boko Haram terrorists.” An EYN media officer said fighters abducted students returning from final exams at the College of Education Waka-Biu, plus an unknown number of farmers; the number taken is unknown. (TruthNigeria.)

At least 3,083 Christians were killed and 3,193 abducted in Nigeria between January and August 2026 amid continuing jihadist and communal violence. The organization also estimates that around 400 churches were attacked and 25 priests and pastors were killed or kidnapped during… pic.twitter.com/bI0DaFxkHa

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hy the abductions? Like all the rest of this, it’s Islamic law. “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance). (Jihad Watch.)

Exclusive: Nigerian Christian Villages Erased as Boko Haram Levels Churches and Escalates Mass Abductions

By: Suleman Ayuba, News Desk, October 10, 2026

HONG, Nigeria — Boko Haram, a violent Islamic extremist organization responsible for severe harm and human‑rights abuses, has destroyed an EYN church — Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria — one of the country’s largest indigenous Christian denominations and carried out mass abductions across Adamawa State, in what local Christian leaders describe as a deliberate campaign to erase indigenous Christian communities.

The church destruction occurred on 8 October 2026. Local clergy told TruthNigeria that the EYN church was completely destroyed. Reverend Mannaseh Mbafe, Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Hong Local Government Chapter, confirmed the attack.

In a separate exclusive interview, Ibrahim Samuel, Liaison Media Officer for the EYN District Church Councils in Shaffa, said Boko Haram fighters also struck Zdur, near Tashan Alade, where they abducted students returning from their final exams at the College of Education Waka‑Biu. The militants also seized two cars, one tricycle, and an unspecified number of farmers from Galanduwa, he told TruthNigeria.

Samuel urged parents to contact their children to confirm their safety, noting that the exact number of abducted students and civilians remains unknown. He added that the scale of the abductions has gone largely unreported, even as Boko Haram continues taking people from farms into captivity.

Christian farmer David Isaac separately confirmed to TruthNigeria that the attack extended beyond the church: shops, chemists, and pharmacy stores were looted, and several residents remain missing, either killed or abducted.

“What we are passing through is a systematic and calculated genocide against indigenous Christians,” Manasseh told TruthNigeria. “Thousands have been displaced. We have been conducting mass burials of Christians. Eight Christian communities have already been completely displaced. Our communities that are being erased are 100 percent Christian. We have lost count of loved ones lost to Boko Haram terrorists,” Rev. Manasseh said.

Those eight villages, he said, were entirely Christian before the attacks. Congregations that once gathered, and families that tilled the soil, are gone. Abandoned compounds and unmarked graves stand where they lived. Manasseh said the aim is to strip indigenous Christians of ancestral land. Nightfall brings no relief. Residents describe a constant dread that the next burst of gunfire will finish another village.

“The pictures of the recent mass burials you have seen are recent,” Manasseh told TruthNigeria.

The erasure of fully Christian communities in Hong is not a string of isolated incidents, CAN and EYN officials tell TruthNigeria. It is an existential crisis. Without action to secure the villages, dismantle terrorist footholds, and return the displaced to their land, they warn, these ancient Christian farming communities will be extinguished under unchecked terror.

Unrelenting Assaults on Civilian Populations
A second exclusive interview puts a survivor’s voice at the center of the same claim. Tabitha Yusuf, a young woman who lived through the massacres, told TruthNigeria that civilians are the target and that faith is the line the attackers use.

“Neither women nor children are spared,” she said. “They kill the men and kidnap the women for sex slavery. Our only offense is that we are Christians. They came in the night and killed dozens of Christians on 1st October and now even on following days. The Boko Haram terrorists have not stopped; they are still coordinating the attacks and killing of Christians,” Yusuf told TruthNigeria.

She described sudden incursions, burned homes, selective killing, and abduction. Men are shot. Women are taken. The pattern, she said, is repeated across Hong county (Local Governance Area) hamlets. For young women in rural Adamawa, captivity is now part of daily fear. Church officials say murder and abduction together are tearing apart the social fabric of indigenous Christian communities.

TruthNigeria reported a rising wave of attacks in Adamawa since January in its August 20th post: in January, Boko Haram attacked Mubang and Zar in Hong LGA while suspected fighters struck Kirchinga in Madagali LGA; in February, twin attacks killed 25 people in Shuwari and Kirchinga, followed by strikes on Guyaku and Telabala in Gombi LGA that killed 29 people where ISWAP claimed responsibility, even as the military reported killing 30 terrorists in operations targeting Boko Haram, ISWAP, and JAS elements.

As terrorism continues to ravage rural farming enclaves across Adamawa and southern Borno, indigenous communities face an existential battle for survival amidst silence, looting, and ongoing violent displacements.

Suleman Ayuba reports on conflict and insecurity for TruthNigeria.