Welcome to a special edition of the Breakpoint podcast. I'm going to have a conversation today with someone that I just heard from again.

Stephen Anata, I met at an Acton University conference. I don't know, Stephen, several years ago, I think.

And just recently, he reached out after seeing a Breakpoint commentary that we had done on the topic of

Nigeria. We've actually done several of these over the last several years because of the

incredible amount of persecution and the targeting of Christians at the hands of both

Boca Haran and the Falani Herdsman. And Stephen is now the chief executive officer of the Veritas Development

Collaborative Limited, an agribusiness consulting firm that's in partnership with the Galilee

International Management Institute. That is an awful lot to say there, Stephen. But you are also

behind the International Committee on Nigeria, and that is

an organization that is keeping track of the ongoing persecution that's happening of Christians

in the country of Nigeria. And the scale and the scope of it is even beyond what I had understood,

and your website and your organization,

the International Committee on Nigeria is keeping track of all that.

Stephen, thanks for joining us on the Breakpoint podcast.

Thank you, John.

Appreciate it.

Stephen, give us a little bit of your background and how you came to be involved in

kind of tracking what I think could rightfully be

called an attempted genocide in many ways against Christians in the country of Nigeria.

Right. Thank you, John. I was motivated some 20 years ago in the city of George,

Pladoo State, when there was some skirmishes between

Muslims and Christians and over 3,000 deaths.

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