The Global Christian Relief, a Christian humanitarian body headquartered in Santa Ana, California, posted a televised interview its chief executive officer Brian Orme granted the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) on its X handle on Tuesday.

Orme shared his understanding of the recent terrorist attacks, killings and displacement of local communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.

The CEO explained that the attacks were religiously motivated. As the interview opens, the broadcaster displays an image of not less than 26 dead bodies surrounded by hundreds of civilian mourners and security operatives.

In the context of the interview, the displayed image was used to depict the bodies of Christians who were killed by jihadist terrorists in Nigeria.

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VERIFICATION: The use of Google’s Reverse Search tool reveals that the image is old and unrelated to the incident and the context in which CBN used it.

The picture in question was that of rice farmers who were murdered on their farms in Kwashebe Village in the Zambarmari area of Borno State on November 28, 2020.

Several local and foreign news outfits widely reported the attack and circulated photographs of the funeral. The links to three such reports have been archived here, here and here.

Expressing his outrage against the attack, Edward Kallon, then United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, said the murdered farmers numbered at least 110.

“I am outraged and horrified by the gruesome attack against civilians carried out by non-state armed groups in villages near Borno State capital Maiduguri. At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this attack,” said Kallon.

FIJ closely looked at the arrangement of people in the image. The people who attended the funeral lined up in an orderly manner, with the majority of them facing the dead bodies wrapped in plain white clothes and kept on wooden platforms.

An old man, wearing Agbada or Babanriga, stood in the front while other mourners, who were also men, clasped their hands above their belly buttons and chests.

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The dead bodies were wrapped from head to toe with white clothes while a rope was used to tie the clothes in a zigzag shape.

A visual analysis of the image by FIJ strongly indicated that the dead victims and their mourners were Muslims. The mourners were standing, observing funeral prayers mandatorily conducted for dead people in Islam just before they are buried.

VERDICT: The picture misrepresented the situation CBN described. Therefore, its use of that image is misleading.