While millions of faithful around the globe celebrated Palm Sunday and prepared for Easter, Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt were once again targeted in a savage spree of violence that left entire villages burned and scores of innocent believers murdered.
In Plateau State — a region that has long served as a front line in the war against Nigeria’s Christian population — Fulani militants armed with sophisticated weaponry descended on Christian farming communities, unleashing terror without warning or provocation.
Local reports confirmed that at least 54 Christians were murdered in the Zikke village area of Bassa Local Government during Palm Sunday worship and the days following. Eyewitnesses described the attacks as “merciless” and “indiscriminate.”
Fulani Militants: The Unchecked Terror
According to multiple human rights organizations, including International Christian Concern and Christian Solidarity Worldwide, these attacks were carried out by heavily armed Fulani herdsmen — a group that, despite its pastoral origins, has increasingly been linked to Islamic radicalism and ethnic cleansing campaigns against Nigeria’s Christian population.
The attackers reportedly surrounded the Christian village of Zikke under the cover of darkness, opening fire on families attending Palm Sunday services. Survivors recounted horrific scenes: entire households gunned down in their homes, bodies mutilated, and homes torched to the ground.
This slaughter follows a pattern seen repeatedly in Nigeria: churches desecrated, villages erased, and local security forces unable or unwilling to prevent the bloodshed.
A Deafening Silence From The World
Despite the sheer brutality and religious targeting of these crimes, global media outlets have been largely silent, with only Christian advocacy organizations and select outlets reporting on the atrocities.
The Biden-era globalist media complex, which still dominates much of the Western narrative, appears once again unwilling to shine a spotlight on the widespread persecution of Christians in Africa. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s administration — backed by the same global elites who undermined President Trump in 2020 — has been roundly criticized for failing to curb the violence or defend Nigeria’s Christian minority.
A Pattern Of Genocide
Nigeria has become one of the deadliest places on earth to be a Christian. According to Open Doors USA, over 5,000 Christians were killed for their faith in Nigeria in 2024 alone, with thousands more displaced, abducted, or maimed. Fulani militants, Boko Haram, and other Islamist groups have leveraged the Nigerian government’s impotence to wage a slow-motion religious genocide across large swaths of the country.
The murders during Holy Week represent just the latest chapter in this ongoing war against Christianity — a war that the Biden administration and its European Union allies refuse to acknowledge.
The Trump Administration’s Response
While President Donald Trump, as of April 2025, had not released a statement directly addressing the Holy Week massacre, his administration has long positioned itself as a defender of Christian freedom both at home and abroad.
Trump’s 2025 Holy Week message, released on April 13, reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to protecting Christians from persecution and standing up for religious liberty worldwide. The administration continues to prioritize sanctions against regimes and groups involved in religious persecution — an approach that stood in sharp contrast to the Obama-Biden foreign policy doctrine, which often appeased or ignored Islamist aggression.
The Legacy Media’s Double Standard
The brutal killing of over 50 Christians has been met with almost total indifference from mainstream Western outlets, who prefer to amplify stories that fit their globalist, progressive agenda — particularly those which paint Christians or conservatives in a negative light.
The same media cabal that devotes wall-to-wall coverage to niche identity groups or social justice causes has chosen to turn its back on one of the most persecuted faith groups in the modern world: Christians.
This chilling silence — one part cowardice, one part ideological contempt — has emboldened jihadists and ethnic cleansers, making the Christian villages of Nigeria more vulnerable with each passing day.
Calls For Action Grow Louder
International human rights groups are calling for the United States and the United Nations to finally classify the attacks on Nigerian Christians as acts of genocide.
The Trump administration has consistently advocated for labeling such attacks appropriately — and with a Republican-controlled Congress pressing the issue, there is a growing demand for the U.S. State Department to re-designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for its repeated violations of religious freedom.
So far, the globalist left has obstructed such efforts, placing diplomatic relations and energy contracts above human rights.
Christian Blood On The Hands Of The West?
For Nigeria’s Christians, the situation remains dire. As long as global leaders refuse to confront the religious nature of these massacres, and as long as the media downplays or outright ignores the suffering of Christian communities, Fulani militants and other Islamist terror groups will continue to kill with impunity.
While the Trump administration remains a lone voice on the international stage, calling for the defense of persecuted Christians, the Biden-Harris holdovers embedded deep within the State Department and corporate media continue to deflect, distract, and deny the reality of Christian persecution.
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