Millions ordered to convert to Islam NOW as violent plot underway to 'wipe out' Christianity

Speaking to GB News's Nick Dunning, Mr Orme revealed: "I do think the typical kind of fallback is that it's really difficult to get any kind of information and it becomes more of a climate issue, a socioeconomic issue, land issue.

"But we have recently sent a team to the Middle Belt, and we've met with many believers, many churches, and heard from them directly to understand exactly what's happening in that Middle Belt area, and everything that we received was very clear that this is a religiously motivated act of violence against the church there."

Detailing the "prescribed template" of the attacks, Mr Orme explained: "It follows a kind of a prescribed template where the attackers attack at night, the extremists target churches, they often also target the pastor's homes. And the pastor's homes are typically like the kind of central hub for the Christian community.

"They're the taxi drivers, the counsellors, the people who distribute the food when it's needed, things like that as well, too. So they attack the houses of the pastors, attack the churches. They'll often pull all the things together in the middle of the church, burn it, even defecate inside of it.

"And this has been a template that's happened time and time across many of the villages that we visited and the people that we met with, and again, even hearing the religious slogans yelled, 'there's no room for Christians', 'you need to leave or convert'. Things like that are the consistent messages across all the villagers that we met within the Middle belt."

Nick then asked: "See, the Nigerian Government's narrative is that this is the Fulani herders, this is actually just a land war. But then I imagine that they wouldn't be targeting churches that way, they would just take the land?"

Mr Orme responded: "That's the way that we see this is that if there was a strict land only issue, there would be some sense of negotiation, there would be some other tactics that would be used. But this is pure violence, meant to eradicate Christian communities is what we see on the ground.

"And again, we're not saying that there aren't other people that are getting caught up in this too. And there's other Muslims as well too. And I think we're really clear to say this isn't a strictly Christian versus Muslim issue, because there's many Muslims who live in the region. It's a Christian versus extremist issue.

"And these extremists are coming in, targeting Christians, trying to eradicate them from the land and take it over."

Asked if the attacks are coming down into the Middle Belt from the North of Nigeria, Mr Orme said: "It has. So in the northern region, we know it, and it's clear that Boko Haram, Islamic State of West Africa province, those are all trying to dominate that area, control it, wipe out Christians.

"We've met with believers, many who've escaped attacks personally, with many women who have been abducted by Boko Haram or married to fighters had to escape, deeply traumatic stories as well. But it's really fascinating in Nigeria where you have one of the largest Christian populations in the world and one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, split between the South that's predominantly Christian, the North, that's predominantly Muslim."

He continued: "And you have this middle belt and a seam, and this is the seam that's really kind of erupting right now as well too. And again, it's hard to tell exactly all the things that are going on, but these radical felonies, many of them have been radicalised, we believe, by the North, from Boko Haram and others, and have been pushed down to take over this land, eradicate Christians.

"And again, it's very clear to us that that is the narrative. Again, it's very hard to get information across Nigeria and like I said, it's hard even to verify it, even as a journalist, and that's why we sent a team there to go into the Plateau State, to meet with pastors, to meet with others who've been part of or have been victim of these attacks, to hear what's happening firsthand."

Recalling a story told by a pastor who was attacked, Mr Orme recounted: "There's one pastor that our team met with, and the attacks happened at night. Him and his wife both ran to hide, they were thinking that the security forces would be there to help them or protect them, and they weren't. For whatever reason, they just disappeared.

"And so they hid in the goat stable, and they heard the gunshots, and they heard people going from house to house. There were nine people killed just in that pastor's house as he and his wife were hiding out. The pastor went back and said 'I've got to see if there's any others left, this is my community. If I don't preach to this village, who do I preach to?'

"So he went back and and unfortunately, he was chased down by the radicals, ran up a hill, was shot and killed, and we spoke with his widow and just the faith that he had to go back, but also just the devastating loss of his life as well to along with many others in their village."

Asked where the Christians go after they are driven out by the attackers, Mr Orme told GB News: "There's multiple routes that they often take, but the first step is to try to find a safe spot to go further south, find a safe spot and again, many of them live for months on hilltops or in rocky formations and really unbearable conditions until they can make it to a place that's safe.

"It might be an internally displaced people camp, which again, we work in many of these IDP camps. You hear so many of the traumatic stories that have been happening, not just in this last year, but in the last decade, where extremists have eradicated Christian villages.

"They fled, they've lost loved ones, they've gone through traumatic violence, and they've escaped. And now they're in these IDP camps where they need resources, they need help, they need trauma counselling. They need Bibles, things that will give them that encouragement to stay strong in their faith."

He said: "This is our Christian family and we need to draw our attention to this, there needs to be something that we can do. And again, we believe that every Christian in the West can stand up to pray for them. The first step is just to know what's happening and to care about it, and to care about it as our family in Nigeria, and not to look away.

"And again, that doesn't mean we don't care about others who are swept up in this violence, because we definitely do and know that it's not just Christians, it's other people who are caught up in this collateral damage as well too. And so we're calling on the his is our Christian family and we need to draw our attention to this. There needs to be something that we can do. And again, we believe that every Christian in the West can stand up to pray for them. The first step is just to know what's happening and to care about it, and to care about it as our family in Nigeria, and not to look away.

"And again, that doesn't mean we don't care about others who are swept up in this violence, because we definitely do and know that it's not just Christians, it's other people who are caught up in this collateral damage as well too. And so we're calling on the Government to provide that protection that the country desperately needs to survive."