For over 15 years, the world looked away while Christians in Nigeria were slaughtered. The numbers tell the story of a widespread killing campaign: over 50,000 Christians murdered by Islamist extremists since 2009. This year alone, at least 7,000 have been killed, averaging 35 deaths per day. Another 7,800 were kidnapped in just the first seven months of 2025.

More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined. Yet the international community has spent years dismissing this systematic extermination as tribal conflict or resource disputes, anything to avoid acknowledging the truth: This is religious persecution, pure and simple.

What international institutions dismissed as tribal disputes, what previous administrations ignored as regional conflict, can no longer be denied for what it is: deliberate annihilation. President Trump has responded decisively, designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern and directing Congress to investigate the massacres. U.S.........

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