'Fractured and Forgotten' Nigeria Abandoned by the World's Christians?

A humanitarian tragedy is taking place in Nigeria, and former Rep. Frank Wolf is accusing the Western churches of failing to speak out on the issue, according to a Christian Post report. 

There are currently millions of displaced people suffering from radical groups like Boko Haram that are like a cancer sweeping across certain areas of the world, especially Nigeria.

Wolf told the Christian Post he got a first-hand look at the hardships Nigerians are facing when he visited the country in February.

He is a senior fellow of the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, an organization that focuses on religious freedom around the world.

Their mission is to "create a world where religious freedom is recognized by nations across the globe as a fundamental human right."

Wolf's concerns come from what he sees as a lack of concern some Western Christians are showing toward the radical terrorism occurring in Nigeria.  

"People of faith, Christians, feel very much forgotten. Nigeria is fractured and is breaking down in so many ways, and it seems that the world has forgotten about it," Wolf said. 

"They feel abandoned by the West, and by the Church in the West. You are not hearing many in the West advocating for them. They would expect that the faith community in the West, Europe, would be advocating, speaking out," Wolf told the Christian Post.

While Boko Haram has existed since 2009, there has also been a rise in attacks from Fulani herdsmen, a terrorist group, against Christian farmers in land disputes, which has led to hundreds of deaths in the past year.

According to a Human Rights Watch report from December 2013, the violence between the Fulani herdsmen and local farmers, as well as others within communities, has resulted in 3,000 deaths since 2010, as reported at trackingterrorism.org. 

The battle between the Fulani herdsmen and local farmers is partly over religion, but also includes other various contributing factors, such as a land resource conflict. 

According to trackingterrorism.org, the herders and farmers are in constant conflict over the herdsmen's need for access to grazing lands. 

The farmers accuse the Fulani herders of letting their animals feed on still growing crops and contaminating community watering-places. The Fulani herders however accuse the farmers of denying them access to grazing places when there is no other option left. 

Rape is another violent conflict between the groups. Non-Fulani women are often raped by herders. Wolf said some are more concerned about the Fulani-herdsmen group, then they are Boko Haram. 

"Everywhere we went, the issue of Boko Haram came up. But secondly, the issue of the Fulani militants came up even more," Wolf said. 

Now Wolf is calling people to action. 

The 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative put together a report, called "Nigeria-Fractured and Forgotten," which details the crisis and makes recommendations on how the U.S. government can help. 

Wolf said although the world's focus is on the Islamic State terrorist group and the Syrian refugees, there are currently 180 million people in Nigeria who need help as well.

According to the Christian Post report, Boko Haram was the most destructive terrorist group in the world in 2015. The Islamic State took second place when it came to terror.

"The fourth biggest terrorist group is the Fulani militant herdsmen. The first and the fourth are in Nigeria. The first has an agreement or an allegiance with the second," Wolf said. 

Wolf warns "no one seems to be in charge" of the Nigerian issue, but said America and other nations shouldn't wait for the next U.S. president to take care of the problem.