Christian Leaders Ignore Muslim Genocide Of Nigerian Christians

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When Christians show maximum tolerance and seek rapprochement with Muslim communities, what they are accommodating is effectively a host of destructive social pathologies.

For years, Christians have been systemically persecuted in Nigeria, with Muslim terrorist groups and militias periodically raiding, raping, murdering, and enslaving Christian civilians in the northern part of the country.

According to a recent article in Catholic Vote, “[F]rom 2019 to 2023, a total of 55,910 people were killed,” and “21,621 people were abducted.” During this four-year timespan, Nigeria “saw an average of eight attacks per day involving killings and/or abductions.” This has continued to this day, with “more than 7,000 Christians killed in Nigeria during the first 220 days of 2025.”

Yet Christian leaders continue to bury their heads in the sand about this crisis. In a recent speech, Pope Leo XIV carried on the unimpressive legacy of his predecessor by directing his righteous ire on Western nations being too inhospitable to immigrants: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing, not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, but rather grave crimes committed or tolerated by the state.”

In all likelihood, the pope doesn’t realize the horrors of Muslim aggression because of the way it’s reported. This is shown in the excuses of Cardinal Parolin, once a serious competitor for the papacy, who denies that there is any kind of persecution happening. According to him, the current situation in Nigeria is “not a religious conflict, but rather more a social one, for example, disputes between herders and farmers.” As evidence, he claims that “many Muslims in Nigeria are themselves victims of this same intolerance.”

Besides the fact that Christian victims far outnumber Muslim ones, this specious reasoning utterly neglects that the aggressors and their enablers in the Nigerian government are Muslim. According to Judd Saul, a missionary documenting the attacks, these terrorists “have declared that Allah has given Nigeria to them and that they can do with Nigeria whatever they want, and once they have the political cover in these northern states, they start going after more land and more villages and start doing the killings.”

This statement was affirmed by fellow Christian filmmaker Mike Arnold, who explained that the attackers will “separate Christian and Muslim men and women first. [And then] they kill the Christian men and tell the Muslim men that they must either join them or die, and they kill all the ones who don’t join them and sell the women into sex slavery.” Meanwhile, Nigerian government officials will keep repeating the line that this is a territorial scuffle “between herders and farmers,” as though this somehow makes it OK and not requiring of attention.