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Ted Cruz: “Over 18,000 Christian churches and over 2,000 Christian…”

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Published | Video Starts at 07:36

Over 50,000. And that's according to a 2023 report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, which is a Nigerian human rights watchdog. Over 18,000 Christian churches and over 2,000 Christian schools have been attacked [in Nigeria] during the same time period. And to put that in comparison, the watchdog also concluded that 34,000 moderate Muslims died from jihadist attacks. So the jihadists they target, they target Muslims who don't embrace jihad, but they, especially in Nigeria, target Christians. (07:36–07:48)

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Asserts that over 18,000 Christian churches and over 2,000 Christian schools have been attacked in Nigeria since 2009.

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