Christian broadcasters like CBN have been sounding the alarm after fresh reports that 14 more believers were gunned down in Nigeria, and these are not isolated incidents but part of a brutal pattern of targeted violence. Truth Nigeria’s Masara Kim told CBN’s Raj Nair that communities are being picked off, families slaughtered, and the world still treats this like another footnote.
This is not hyperbole — independent reporting and human-rights groups document waves of massacres across the Middle Belt and the north, with some counts putting thousands of Christian lives lost just this year alone. The scale of the carnage and the steady drumbeat of attacks from Benue and Plateau to other states demand we stop pretending these are mere criminal incidents and recognize the pattern for what it is.
Who is doing this is no mystery to people on the ground: a mix of Islamist terror cells, ISIS-affiliated brigades, and marauding Fulani militias have repeatedly terrorized Christian farming communities, often burning homes and churches and slaughtering men, women, and children. These assaults are frequently wrapped in disputes over land, but the religious and ethnic targeting is clear — Christians are being disproportionately victimized.
The political answerability for this slaughter is lacking. Nigeria’s leadership has issued condemnations, but security failures are obvious and international pressure has been inconsistent — the same Biden administration that once removed Nigeria from the U.S. CPC list of concern has been slow to treat systematic anti-Christian violence as the crisis it is. If American policymakers truly believe in religious liberty, they must reverse course and apply real leverage, not platitudes.
Faith communities and conservative activists should not wait for the mainstream media to finally care; churches, donors, and members of Congress must act now to fund relief, back independent reporters on the ground, and insist on accountability from Abuja. Outlets like CBN and Truth Nigeria keep exposing what global elites try to ignore, and their reporting should be amplified rather than dismissed.
This is a moment that tests our convictions: will we stand with persecuted Christians abroad, call out religiously motivated violence regardless of the perpetrators, and demand policies that protect innocent life? Cowardice and silence are complicity; patriotic Americans and principled conservatives must raise their voices, support victims, and push for a foreign policy that defends the persecuted rather than looks the other way.
