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Rev. Father Remigius Ihyula’s appearance on Fox Report is a wake-up call the establishment doesn’t want to hear: a director of the Foundation for Justice, Development & Peace is testifying on air about decades-long, targeted attacks on Christians across Nigeria. Hardworking Americans who cherish religious liberty should be alarmed that clergy who risk their lives to help victims are forced to beg the world for justice.
Father Ihyula’s eyewitness account of the massacre at Yelwata is chilling — survivors “terrorized” and reports of at least 200 killed as displaced Christians sheltering in a church compound were slaughtered in the night. This isn’t abstract rhetoric; it is real people, families, and congregations destroyed while much of the world looks away.
This massacre fits a grim pattern: Fulani militia raids, Boko Haram and ISWAP terror, and banditry have driven millions from their homes and left swaths of the Middle Belt and north in flames for years. Conservative Americans know what unchecked violence looks like, and we refuse to let religious persecution be normalized under the guise of complex local problems.
Washington is finally being forced to reckon with the issue, and the political fight is raw — claims about widespread Christian killing have prompted U.S. diplomatic action and a fierce pushback from Nigerian authorities who insist the situation is being politicized. The truth is often messy, but the moral clarity is simple: when churches burn and priests are kidnapped, freedom-loving countries must stand up.
It’s telling that Nigeria’s government has sought to dismiss and even vilify voices like Ihyula’s, accusing some religious leaders of exaggeration while ordinary citizens bury their dead and beg for protection. American policymakers and citizens should view those denials with healthy skepticism and side with victims over bureaucratic spin.
We must do more than express sorrow; conservative America should demand real measures — targeted sanctions, humanitarian aid channeled through trusted faith groups, and support for local defenders of religious liberty. Pray for the persecuted, pressure your representatives, and refuse to let the global left’s selective outrage blot out the suffering of Christian communities abroad.
