27 Christians Killed in Nigeria: 'To Wipe Out the Entirety of Christianity,' Says Reporter Who Fears He's Next

In a shocking targeted assault, 27 Christians have been killed in fresh overnight attacks in Plateau State, central Nigeria, in what a local reporter describes as part of a campaign 'to wipe out the entirety of Christianity in Nigeria'.

The latest killings were reported in the villages of Rim and Mangu, about 50 miles south of Jos, during raids that began late on Saturday and ran into the early hours of Sunday.

According to Truth Nigeria journalist Masara Kim, who spoke to CBN News, armed men swept through both communities while military units stationed nearby failed to intervene.

International Christian Concern has separately confirmed that at least 24 Christians died in a single assault on the Bin Mper community in Plateau State this week.

The claims are fuelling renewed allegations of a slow‑motion genocide against Christians in Nigeria, with Kim saying he now expects to be killed for documenting it.

Masara Kim Rejects Climate and Farmer-Herder Explanations

During the interview, Kim said the ongoing attacks 'highlight the intentions, the motivations of these terrorists. It is to wipe out the entirety of Christianity in Nigeria'.

He rejected common political explanations that have often been used by international officials to describe violence in Nigeria's Middle Belt. 'This is not about climate change, and this is not about farmer‑herder clashes,' he argued, adding that in his view it is 'clear religious and ethnic targeting'.

Kim accused what he called 'genocide deniers' and 'left‑wing politicians and media' of pushing alternative narratives that obscure the religious dimension of the killings.

International Christian Concern, a US‑based advocacy group, has backed up at least part of his factual account, confirming that 24 Christians were killed in one recent attack on the Bin Mper community in Plateau State.

Kim, citing his own field reporting over recent months, says more than 70 people have been 'slaughtered' in Plateau this month alone, almost double that number in the previous month, and more than 200 the month before, including 22 Christians killed in his own local area.

Night Raids, Silent Soldiers and a Two‑Year‑Old Survivor

Kim's latest dispatch is detailed and harrowing. He describes the attacks on Rim and Mangu as starting around 11pm and lasting until 1am, with gunmen moving through homes in the dark and opening fire on residents as they slept.

In Mangu, he says soldiers were stationed about three miles away but did not respond until after dawn. He alleges that villagers, rather than the army, tried to defend themselves, with civilian volunteers forming what he calls 'the only hopes of these vulnerable Christian communities'.

Kim recounts that in one Mangu community more than 100 Christian homes had previously been looted and burned, along with a church, a clinic and a school, and that local 'civilian defenders' had pushed the attackers back just long enough for women, children and elderly people to flee.

In another recent incident, he says a Church leader in Mangu was shot and killed by soldiers who were supposed to protect him after he and others came out to respond to gunfire during a Sunday service.

The most shocking detail in Kim's account centres on a two‑year‑old girl he says survived an attack that wiped out her family of eight.

According to his description, gunmen went room to room, killing her parents, siblings and uncle, then shot the child as she lay crying under their bodies.

'They went and pointed the rifle directly at her and fired on her and left believing she had died,' Kim said, adding that she was later found alive and taken to a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds to her thigh and pelvic region.

Masara Kim Says He Expects To Be Killed for His Work

Kim Masara is not speaking as an outside commentator parachuted into a conflict zone for a week. He is a Plateau‑born journalist who reports for Truth Nigeria and works with the US‑based organisation Equipping the Persecuted, which he says provides early warnings, basic relief and medical support to attacked communities.

Over the past days, he claims, he has been posting 'advanced warnings' of planned assaults in Rim and Mangu on his social media feeds and sending video from scenes almost as soon as the shooting stops.

That visibility comes with a personal cost. Asked directly if he is afraid, Kim replied that he has 'actually been targeted', 'jailed' and 'shot at several times'.

He said threats arrive in his direct messages 'every day', and that people now recognise him in the street, sometimes forcing him to deny his identity for his own safety. Yet he told CBN that he has reached a bleak conclusion about his future.

'What this means is that as long as I bear the name of, the identity of Christ, I will eventually be killed. I will eventually be targeted whether or not I speak,' he said. 'And so it is better for me, it is more profitting for me to die while speaking out for these people, to die while standing for the cause of justice and religious freedom.'

Kim connects that conviction explicitly to his Christian faith, describing his work as part of what he sees as the 'Great Commission', a multi‑sector mission that, in his view, includes education, advocacy, food aid and practical support as much as preaching.

He casts himself, quite deliberately, as a kind of local Good Samaritan, saying the 'least' he can do is to 'give hope' and 'bring awareness' to attacks occurring 'under the watch of the Nigerian authorities'.

Nair told Kim he had 'goosebumps' listening to him and urged Christians in the West to pray for his safety and for the communities he covers, describing him as 'one of the most if not the most important voice in this whole thing'.

Meanwhile, at the time of publication, Nigerian authorities had issued no official statement regarding Kim's claims.

Kim has become one of the most visible voices documenting the violence, posting warnings, photos and videos from attack sites even as he receives daily threats. He says he has been shot at several times and jailed in the past, yet continues to return to the scenes of massacres to comfort survivors and alert authorities.