Nigeria: tops in Mass attendance despite persecution
February 14, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: A 2023 survey found that 94% of Nigeria’s Catholics attend Mass weekly—the highest rate among all the countries studied. Yet Nigeria is also distinguished as one of the countries where Christians face the greatest danger of persecution, according to religious-freedom advocates.
Christian Concern ranks Nigeria as second only to North Korea in hostility toward the Christian faith. Open Doors reports that more than 5,600 Christians were killed in Nigeria last year, comprising 90% of all the Christians killed worldwide because of their faith.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Feb. 14, 2024 1:51 PM ET USA
Romans 5:3-5 says: "Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us." Nigeria is a proper example of where sin increases, grace increases all the more (Romans 5:20). Contrast this with the recent examples of the proliferation of sin being welcomed.
