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Outrage is rising across the Christian world as fresh reports pour in about brutal, sustained attacks on Christian villages across Nigeria — a country where watchdogs say the violence has reached catastrophic levels this year. Nigerian watchdog groups and Christian organizations estimate thousands of believers have been killed and many thousands more kidnapped or displaced, a human toll that should shame any nation calling itself civilized.
The slaughter is not abstract statistics but burning homes and broken families: mass killings in places like Yelwata and the Palm Sunday assaults on farming communities in Plateau and Benue have left scores dead and thousands fleeing into the bush. Survivors tell the same horror story — houses set ablaze, market-rooms charred, and worshippers slaughtered in the very shadows where they once prayed, evidence that this is organized terror, not random criminality.
Yet despite the mounting carnage, the Nigerian government and some international outlets treat the suffering as an unfortunate byproduct of generalized insecurity rather than the targeted persecution it increasingly resembles. That argument has been pressed in recent reporting that questions some of the headline numbers, but hedging over statistics cannot be an excuse for inaction when churches are burning and believers are being butchered — moral clarity must trump cautious phrasing.
Fox viewers saw the crisis laid out on Sunday when Raymond Arroyo joined Fox & Friends Weekend to break down the reports and put names and faces to the headlines, reminding Americans that this is about people of faith being driven from their land. Conservative media and faith leaders have stepped up where too many in the mainstream press have turned away, making it impossible to ignore that Christian communities face acute danger in Nigeria today.
Washington should stop wringing its hands and start using the tools of American power — sanctions, targeted diplomatic pressure, and meaningful asylum pathways for the most vulnerable — to protect persecuted Christians and punish those who terrorize them. Senators and lawmakers pushing for Nigeria to be designated a Country of Particular Concern are right to demand consequences; the U.S. can no longer pretend there is no religious dimension to heinous attacks that have racingly emptied churches and cemeteries alike.
Patriots and people of faith in our country must raise their voices louder than the global appeasers and media gatekeepers who downplay this slaughter. Call your representatives, support the charities on the ground, and do not let the victims of Benue, Plateau, and beyond become another statistic swallowed by bureaucratic indifference — America should stand with the persecuted, not with the silence that enables their killers.
