A Nigerian Archbishop has not demanded the Western world take more Islamic refugees, but instead has asked his government to afford more protection for Christians suffering under Islamic brutality. 

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, President of the Bishops’ Conference, said in a statement that the bishops were "particularly saddened by the constant and wanton destruction of lives and properties."

As this violence spreads across the country, Kaigama warned that "no one knows which community will be the next victim."

"We live in a country that is multi-ethnic, multi-religious and complex in nature," he said. "That is why we must constantly appeal to the sensibilities of our political leaders not to be seen to promote the interest of any particular group but to be neutral and seek the common things that will promote unity, fairness and equity in the country."

As to the extent of these atrocities, Breitbart provided further insight: 

During December, more than 800 people—mostly Christians—died in inter-religious violence in the south of Kaduna state, which forms part of Nigeria’s so-called middle belt, where the chiefly Muslim north of the country meets the mainly Christian south.

According to Vatican Radio, the Muslim Fulani Cattle herdsmen in the area have recently committed 'atrocities' resulting in the deaths of 'thousands of Christians and the destruction of property worth millions of Naira.'

Muslim Fulani herdsmen have perpetrated much of the violence against the predominantly Christian local farmers, and some Christians have reportedly also carried out retaliatory killings as well.

The Nigerian government has largely downplayed the conflict, accusing the Catholic Church of conflating the death tolls and calling the conflicts "ethnic" rather than religious. 

This refusal on the part of the Nigerian government to acknowledge these atrocities has drawn the ire of other bishops as well, including Joseph Bagobiri of Kafanchan, who says that Christianity may not survive so long as the government continues to enable the violence. 

"The crisis here has persisted because of the way and manner the federal and state governments, as well as the security agents are handling it," Bagobiri said. "The root cause of this crisis is the institutionalization of what could be regarded as structural injustice."

He than called their ineptness "a deliberate policy of injustice designed to shut our people out from the scheme of things and deny us our rights."

"We as a Church must evolve new ways on how we can face violence without losing faith," Bagobiri said. "It is our prayer that God will give us his strength and the needed direction on how to make Christianity survive despite the constant attacks and persecutions we received."