Breaking: Boko Haram Destroys EYN Church in Adamawa — 8 Christian Villages Emptied (2026)

Reverend Mannaseh Mbafe did not mince his words when the pictures came in. "What we are passing through is a systematic and calculated genocide against indigenous Christians," he said. The secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria's Hong Local Government chapter was looking at photographs of a church reduced to blackened rubble — and behind it, village after village, emptied of every living soul.

The church belonged to the Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria — the EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, one of the country's largest indigenous Christian denominations. On October 8, 2026, Boko Haram fighters completely destroyed it in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Reverend Mbafe confirmed the destruction to TruthNigeria, which published exclusive photos from the scene.

But the church was only the beginning. In the same wave of voilence, the militants struck Zdur, near Tashan Alade, and abducted students returning from their final examinations at the College of Education Waka-Biu. They seized two cars, one tricycle, and an unspecified number of farmers from Galanduwa, Ibrahim Samuel, liaison media officer for the EYN District Church Councils in Shaffa, told TruthNigeria.

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Christian farmer David Isaac told TruthNigeria that the assault reached well beyond the church walls. Shops, chemists, and pharmacy stores were looted. Several residents remain missing — either killed or abducted, and no one knows which.

Eight communities whose populations were entirely Christian have now been completely displaced. "Our communities that are being erased are 100 percent Christian," Reverend Mbafe said. "We have lost count of loved ones lost to Boko Haram terrorists."

The violence has been building for weeks. This is the same Middle Belt killing pattern that saw a pastor bury four of his own congregants after a midnight attack earlier this year — only now the target is whole villages, not just households. Tabitha Yusuf, a young survivor of the massacres, told TruthNigeria that the terrorists struck on October 1 and kept coming for days.

"Neither women nor children are spared. They kill the men and kidnap the women for sex slavery. Our only offense is that we are Christians." — Tabitha Yusuf, survivor, via TruthNigeria

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For parents, the cruelest detail was the students. Young people returning from their final examinations — the happiest day of a school year — were taken by armed men before they could reach home. Ibrahim Samuel urged parents to contact their children immediately and find out whether they were safe. The exact number of those abducted remains unknown.

The attackers reportedly crossed between Adamawa and Taraba State before and after the assault, making them nearly imposible to track. The attack was described as the fourth assault in six months on communities in Hong and Gombi — a steady rhythm of raids that has turned harvest season into a season of fear.

A separate attack the same day in Guyaku, Gombi Local Government Area, showed the pattern again: Boko Haram fighters burned the EYN LCC Guyaku No. 2 church and a primary health care facility between 5:05 and 6:46 p.m. Two people, including a young girl, were killed, and another girl was abducted. It fits the grim continental picture — a new report warned that 7,500 Christians have been killed across Africa — but Adamawa is where the numbers are becoming names and faces.

Nigeria Christians Persecution Today: Eight Villages Gone

Lydia Ishaku fled Garaha with nothing. "We are now displaced and came out with nothing," she told TruthNigeria. "Everything was destroyed. We cannot return to our ancestral home because Boko Haram is occupying everywhere. We desperately want the government to intervene."

For displaced residents sheltering in Yola, returning home remains impossible while attackers are believed to control their communities. Abandoned compounds and unmarked graves now stand where families once lived and farmed. Nightfall brings constant fear that the next burst of gunfire will finish another village.

There was one bright spot in the darkness: military forces repelled a Boko Haram assault in Adamawa, killing six terrorists, according to TruthNigeria. But church leaders warn that without decisive action to secure the villages and return the displaced to their lands, these historic Christian farming communities face extinction. The pattern mirrors other recent cases — like the Christian mother jailed for 14 years in Nigeria simply for sharing her faith — faith itself is the crime, and the sentence keeps getting written in blood.

Reverend Mbafe's phrase hangs over everything now: "a systematic and calculated genocide." The question is who will hear it before the next village burns — and whether the world that watched Ukraine and Gaza will finally turn its eyes to the Christians being erased from Nigeria's northeast, one church at a time.

But the most surprising part of this story is yet to come — keep reading.