Genocide in Nigeria - why are we silent?
Why is the world silent while Christians in Nigeria are hunted like animals and erased from the face of the earth?
The brutality is unspeakable. Villages burned to the ground. Churches desecrated. Families butchered in their homes. Children’s bodies lying lifeless in the dust. And the global response? Silence. Shrugs. Indifference.
The numbers no one wants to talk about
The statistics alone should shock the conscience of the world.
- In just the first seven months of 2025, more than 7,000 Christians were massacred and nearly 8,000 abducted.
- Since 2009, the death toll has reached over 52,000 Christians slaughtered.
- In 2024 alone, 3,100 Christians were murdered — making Nigeria the deadliest nation on earth for followers of Christ.
These are not accidents. These are not isolated “ethnic clashes.” This is genocide: the deliberate, systematic extermination of Christians.
A Government that enables terror
Under Nigeria’s government, dominated by Muslim leadership, the picture grows darker still. While Christian victims rot in shallow graves, Islamist terrorists are not only spared justice — they are “rehabilitated” and released back into society.
What kind of justice is this? What kind of leadership treats mass murderers as victims and the real victims as expendable?
Where is the outrage?
Where is the outrage of the global community? Where are the governments that claim to stand for human rights? Where are the international organizations that lecture the world about “justice” and “equality”?
Even the Church itself, too often, has been struck dumb. Mega-church pastors with millions of followers remain silent. Western bishops, quick to speak on fashionable causes, look the other way. International media, eager to chase manufactured scandals, turn away from the piles of corpses.
This silence is betrayal. This silence is complicity.
The forgotten faithful
Nigeria’s Christians are left to bury their dead, rebuild their burned villages, and mourn their stolen children. Widows and orphans sit in refugee camps, abandoned to poverty and despair. Pastors rebuild churches with bare hands, only to see them torched again.
And yet the global community says nothing.
The cost of inaction
Every day of silence means more graves. More children abducted. More churches in flames. The cost is not abstract — it is counted in blood.
To call this anything less than genocide is a lie. To ignore it is a crime.
A call to conscience
The time for silence has ended. The persecution of Christians in Nigeria is one of the great human rights atrocities of our time. It is past time for the Church, for governments, and for ordinary believers to demand action.
The blood of the martyrs cries out from the ground. Will we finally listen?
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