PFN Blasts Govt Over ‘Palm Sunday Massacre’ in Jos; Pentecostal Leaders Demand End to Serial Killings of Christians as Death Toll Hits 28

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has “flipped the script” on the usual calls for calm, demanding immediate and visible justice following the brutal Palm Sunday attack in Jos. The Fellowship declared that the repeated targeting of Christian communities in Plateau State has become a “national embarrassment” that the current administration must solve with force rather than words.

The “Solution” to the recurring violence, according to the PFN, is not a 48-hour curfew but the total “dislodgement” of the militias hiding in the mountainous regions surrounding Jos North. The body noted with grief that while the victims of the March 29 attack including infants and students were being given a mass burial, the suspects remained at large. “We are tired of being told that security is ‘combing the bushes’ while our people are being harvested for death in their sleep,” a spokesperson for the Fellowship stated in Abuja.

This latest massacre has reignited a fierce debate over the “Renewed Hope” security agenda. Religious leaders pointed out that data from the 2026 World Watch List already ranks Nigeria as the deadliest place for Christians globally, with over 70% of faith-based killings happening within its borders. The PFN warned that if the government continues to fail in its primary duty of protection, it may lose the moral right to stop citizens from taking their security into their own hands.

As the 30-day window for the UNIJOS exam resumption begins, the PFN has called for a National Day of Mourning. They urged the international community to look beyond “farmer-herder” labels and see the crisis for what it is: a coordinated campaign of terror. With the state government still grappling with the aftermath of the Angwan Rukuba siege, the message from the pulpit is loud and clear: the time for “condolence visits” is over; the time for accountability is now.