Another 1,400 Christians were murdered in Nigeria between January and April 2026, according to the same report.

Omissions

• The ECLJ report relays data from Intersociety, a non-governmental monitoring organization, not from official statistics (UN, Nigerian government, or independent academic counts).
• The exclusively religious framing of the killings is contested: The Conversation analysis notes 'it is difficult to delineate the killings based on religious affiliations' and argues all faiths are under attack by terrorists.
• The ECLJ specifies the second period precisely as 'January 1 and April 6, 2026,' so 'January to April' is an approximation.
• Only the ECLJ page itself (the very report cited by the MEP) was found to confirm the figures; no independent official source corroborates the 7,000 and 1,400 counts.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) — 'Nigeria: ECLJ Submits Evidence of Anti-Christian Massacres Ahead of UN Special Rapporteurs Visit'According to Intersociety, more than 7,000 Christians were killed for their faith in Nigeria during the first 220 days of 2025 alone. An additional 1,400 were killed just between January 1 and April 6, 2026.
• SecondaryThe Conversation — 'Is there a Christian genocide in Nigeria? Evidence shows all faiths are under attack by terrorists'Despite the number of fatalities from terrorism in Nigeria, it is difficult to delineate the killings based on religious affiliations.