70 Christians were killed in Nigeria for believing in Jesus, all within the last 48 hours. Our team is on the ground treating wounds, burying family members and preventing attacks like this. But we cannot do it without your support. Go to https://t.co/h5EiYisbdg and make a recurring gift, that will save countless lives in Nigeria.
I warned about these attacks at the beginning of July. Our teams have been deployed and we are working to bring aid to the survivors. These attacks were committed by the Islamist Fulani Ethnic Militia. The Nigerian Government is NOT protecting Christians. Please tell @realDonaldTrump
I'm seeing this pop up all over my social media. My response is this: If a million women decided to donate to help persecuted Christians in Nigeria, we can rebuild the lives of the 5 million displaced Christians, increase security, get them their farmland, and help them return to a normal life. https://t.co/h5EiYirDnI
Thank you @Franklin_Graham for raising the Alarm. Persecuted Christians in Nigeria need action from the US Government. ISWAP is not the main group killing Christians in Nigeria. The Fulani Ethnic Miltia have killed more Christians in Nigeria than Boko Haram and ISIS combined!
Pray for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria. Pray that President @realDonaldTrump will put pressure on the Muslim president of Nigeria to protect innocent Christians who are being butchered by radical followers of Islam. This pastor said, “I know what it means to stand before grieving families whose only crime was refusing to deny Jesus Christ…Now they say I will be next. But I ask the world, what is my crime?”
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@Franklin_Graham@realDonaldTrump If you want to help pastor Ezekiel Dachomo, please visit https://t.co/8TzSLuRSLk
We actually help persecuted Christians in Nigeria. Pastor Ezekiel is one of our partners in Nigeria.
There is this bizarre narrative I'm seeing develop that is trying to drive a wedge between the Trump Admin and Congress re Nigeria 🇳🇬 and persecution.
But especially after the recent hearings this week, it's just plainly untrue. (And isn't working.)
Everyone agrees there's been some good progress on certain terrorist groups and establishing a good working relationship.
And everyone agrees that more needs to be done on Fulani militants in the Middle Belt attacking Christians, helping IDPs, and dealing with Sharia/blasphemy laws.
The aid conditionality--not an "aid freeze"--is there essentially as an incentive to make sure Nigeria keeps working with the US to "take effective steps" to fully deal with these issues.
Which is why it's smart policy.
You’ll never believe what some people are saying is causing the mass killing of Christian Nigerians.
“Climate change.”
Judd Saul called the excuse so “ridiculous” that it practically makes them “complicit in the genocide.”
“The change in weather by a few degrees does not motivate people to load up their guns to go into a village and kill men, women, and children, while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar.’”
“It has nothing to do with climate change.”
@juddsaul@EquipPersecuted
Ted Cruz: Nigeria launched PR campaign instead of responding to US concerns over insecurity
Ted Cruz, a United States senator, says Nigeria’s engagement of a lobbying firm to communicate its actions on protecting Christians in Nigeria to the US government was an attempt to deflect American concerns over the West African country’s security crisis.
Nigeria hired DCI Group, a US-based public affairs and lobbying firm, in a $9 million contract last December — few months after it was designated a ‘country of particular concern’ by President Donald Trump.
https://t.co/Ulh86eqMGp
US Congressmen:
We are taking the fïght to Nigeria to stop the prosecuti0n of Nigerians, Since their government is not really serious about stopping it.
.@USAmbUN: Churches are being burned. Pastors are being executed. People are being arrested literally for just wearing a cross around their neck.
We are taking the persecution of Christians in Nigeria very seriously.
Since 2019, tens of thousands of Christians in Nigeria have been slaughtered as part of a sustained pattern of religiously motivated violence by Islamist jihadis.
America gives billions to Nigeria. We will not continue to fund a Christian genocide.
Nigerian officials have created an environment that facilitates mass violence against Christians and religious minorities by imposing blasphemy and Sharia laws and looking the other way at jihadist atrocities.
The U.S. government knows the Nigerian officials responsible for these policies, I have been pushing my bill to sanction them, and President Trump has even ordered military action.
Instead of responding to American concerns, Nigerian officials waged a public relations campaign against critics.
They were confident in that campaign and in their ability to continue the status quo, and I am heartened that the House has just definitively proven them wrong.
https://t.co/k2PMQZDKNT