It’s the middle of the night and you’re woken by gunfire. You grab your things and run – you don’t want to be there when they arrive at your door. 

That is the experience of so many Christians in north and central Nigeria. Villages are raided, men, women and children are murdered, and thousands are made homeless. They are dying every day and the world seems to know very little about it.

On today’s podcast host Sarah is speaking to Nigerian Christian leader and Release International partner, Hassan John. Listen in as he provides some searching analysis of what lies behind the violence and how the problem is growing across the wider West Africa region. But he’ll also tell us about how God is at work even in that darkness.