Boko Haram militants shot Suzanne in the head as the Christian woman attended a field, murdering her father and robbing her of eyesight in an attack that exemplified the persistent violence impacting Nigerian people of faith in the last several years.
Nearly 10,000 Nigerian Christians (9,814) died at the hands of Boko Haram and other Islamic extremist groups between November 2022 and November 2024, according to the newly released 2025 Global Christian Relief Red List.
The data for the Red List comes from the Violent Incidents Database maintained by GCR, a U.S.-based nonprofit monitoring Christian persecution worldwide.
Suzanne’s story, featured in the report, included a prayer for Christians in Nigeria, which advocates have warned for years have faced genocidal violence in a country marred by Islamic extremism, ethnic violence and crime.
The Christian woman, who must now rely on her husband to be her eyes, prays that the Boko Haram militants who attacked her will come to accept Jesus one day.
“God, our hearts go out to the family members of those who have been senselessly killed,” the GCR prayer reads. “Please shield Nigerian Christians like Suzanne from harm and comfort them in their loss.”
“Cause Nigeria’s politicians to enact policies that will protect believers from religious extremism,” the prayer continued. “Stop the bloodshed and bring peace to the land. Amen.”
GCR previously highlighted the woman’s testimony in April 2024, with the persecuted Christian recounting the day that Boko Haram left her for dead.
As the Red List report noted, despite losing her father and her vision due to the extremist group’s actions, Suzanne forgave her attackers.
The Red List purports to be the “first-ever quantifiable and verifiable index exposing the top offenders of Christian persecution worldwide.”
GCR called attention to the 25 worst countries for Christian persecution across multiple categories, including killings, building attacks, arrests, displacements, and abductions and assaults.
GCR ranked Nigeria in the top spot in the first and last categories in the report.
“Most of the killings are concentrated in the northern ‘sharia’ states, where Christians often live in remote villages in semi-arid landscapes, making them particularly vulnerable to attacks,” the report stated.
“Despite government assurances that they will defeat the extremists, the violence continues to escalate. Nigeria’s grim statistics are unmatched,” the document continued. FULL REPORT
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