31.10.2025
US President Donald Trump Friday resounded “Christian genocide in Nigeria” a claim US political figures have pushed for some time.
Trump, writing on his Truth Social Media claimed that Christians in Nigeria are facing an “existential threat,” as he blamed Muslims for carrying out a “mass slaughter” and called on American lawmakers to investigate.
Concerns over a “Christian genocide” in Nigeria have previously been pushed by US members of Congress, but experts say that narrative obscures a more complicated reality on the ground in Africa’s most populous nation, which has rejected such claims in the past.
Trump said that thousands of Christians are being killed in Nigeria.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that Christians in Nigeria are facing an “existential threat,” as he blamed Muslims for carrying out a “mass slaughter” and called on American lawmakers to investigate.
Concerns over a “Christian genocide” in Nigeria have previously been pushed by US members of Congress, but experts say that narrative obscures a more complicated reality on the ground in Africa’s most populous nation, which has rejected such claims in the past.
“Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform, without providing evidence to support his claims.
Trump said he is naming Nigeria a “country of particular concern” — a State Department designation for nations “engaged in severe violations of religious freedom.
“The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!” Trump added.
In the northeast has been in the grip of jihadist violence for more than 15 years by the Islamist Boko Haram group, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives and displaced two million people.
At the same time, large parts of the country’s northwest, north and central have been hit by criminal gangs known as “bandits” who attack villages, killing and kidnapping residents.
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