If you think the violent persecution of Christians ended in Rome – think again.

The stone floor beneath the Colosseum vibrated with the roar of fifty thousand Roman voices screaming for blood. A Christian family huddled together in the darkness of the holding cell, arms wrapped around their children, whispering final prayers. The father’s lips moved silently as he quoted scripture his daughter would never grow old enough to memorize. His wife pressed their youngest son’s face against her chest to muffle the sound of the crowd above demanding their deaths as entertainment. They could hear the other prisoners weeping in adjacent cells. They could smell death and fear and human waste mixing in the suffocating heat.

The wooden elevator groaned as chains pulled it upward. Iron gates screeched open and blinding Mediterranean sunlight flooded the chamber. Guards shoved the family onto the platform with a dozen other believers. Some prayed. Some sang hymns. One elderly man simply closed his eyes and smiled, ready to see his Savior. The elevator lurched upward and the crowd’s roar became deafening. The family emerged into the arena sand already stained dark with the blood of the previous group. Thousands of faces screamed and pointed and cheered. The father squeezed his daughter’s hand one final time.

Across the arena, handlers released the animals. Half-starved lions and wolves that hadn’t eaten in days exploded from their gates. The beasts had been trained for this. Starved for this. Their handlers knew exactly how long to withhold food to guarantee maximum savagery for maximum crowd satisfaction. The family had perhaps fifteen seconds before the first animal reached them. The mother began singing. Others joined her. Their voices barely carried above the roar of bloodthirsty Romans who had come to watch human beings torn apart and consumed alive.

You probably think this kind of persecution ended two thousand years ago with the fall of Rome. You’d be wrong. It didn’t end. It just moved. The crowds changed. The weapons evolved. But the hunting of Christians for sport and slaughter never actually stopped. It’s happening right now in 2025 while you scroll through your phone. The only difference is that this time, nobody’s selling tickets. Nobody’s building monuments to remember the victims. And you probably don’t even know it’s happening.

303 Children Stolen From Their Beds Four Days Ago – Where’s Your Outrage?

Four days ago [11/19/2025}, armed men stormed St. Mary’s Catholic School in Nigeria under cover of darkness. They dragged 303 children from their beds. The youngest was ten years old. Twelve teachers vanished with them. You probably scrolled right past this story, assuming you saw it at all. The media barely whispered about it because the victims had the wrong religion. Christian blood doesn’t sell newspapers anymore.

Parents arrived at dawn to find empty dormitories and scattered belongings. One mother collapsed in the doorway of her daughter’s room. A younger sister who escaped described hiding under her bed while listening to screams echo through the hallways. She’s twelve. She’ll hear those screams for the rest of her life. The Nigerian government issued a statement promising to deploy security forces to “comb the forests” for the missing children, which is political speak for “we’re doing absolutely nothing and hoping you’ll forget by next week.”

This is the second mass kidnapping in Nigeria this month. Last week, 25 schoolgirls were taken from a boarding school in Kebbi State. Armed men shot the vice principal dead when she tried to protect her students. The week before that, gunmen stormed a church during Sunday service. Two worshippers died. Dozens more disappeared. Nobody knows where they are. Nobody seems to care enough to find out.

You want to know the sickest part? This isn’t news in Nigeria. This is Tuesday.

She Chose Rape and Slavery Over Denying Christ – You Can’t Even Admit Your Faith to a Waiter

Her name is Liah Sharibu, and you need to burn it into your memory. Seven years ago, when she was fourteen, terrorists kidnapped her along with 109 classmates from their school in Dapchi. They released every single girl except one. Liah stayed behind because she refused to say three words: I’m not Christian.

That was February 19, 2018. She’s spent seven birthdays in captivity. Her fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first. Reports suggest her captors forced her to marry a Boko Haram commander. She may have children by now. Her mother buries relatives while waiting for a daughter who might already be dead. The Nigerian government makes occasional noises about negotiations but produces nothing.

Liah rots in some camp while her parents age thirty years in seven.

Ask yourself what you would do in her position. Ask yourself what your teenage daughter would do. Would she choose rape and slavery over denying Christ? Would she say “I am a Christian” knowing exactly what comes next? Liah did. She was fourteen years old and she chose torture over apostasy. Meanwhile, American Christians can’t even admit their faith to a waiter before saying grace over appetizers.

We share prayer requests about job interviews and parking spaces. We crowdfund mission trips that look suspiciously like vacations. We rally around celebrities who face mild criticism for their religious beliefs. But a teenage girl held captive for seven years because she wouldn’t deny Jesus? That barely registers. We scroll past her story to watch cat videos and argue about worship music styles.

The comparison should nauseate you. It nauseates me.

 

One Christian Murdered Every Three Hours

Stop what you’re doing and read these numbers out loud. Don’t skim them. Read them.

Fifty-two thousand Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009. That’s not a typo. That’s not an exaggeration. Fifty-two thousand human beings murdered for their faith in sixteen years. Break that down and it’s roughly nine per day. More than one every three hours. While you sleep, while you work, while you complain about traffic, Nigerian Christians die.

Just in the first eight months of 2024, militants killed 7,087 Christians in Nigeria. That’s twenty-nine per day. More than one per hour. Think about the last hour of your life. What did you do? Check your phone? Make coffee? Complain about something meaningless? In that same hour, a Christian in Nigeria died for believing what you claim to believe.

Here’s the number that should break you: More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined. The entire planet. Nigeria alone accounts for more Christian martyrs than every other country added together. Let that sink in until it hurts.

The children tell an even darker story. Between 2014 and 2024, armed groups kidnapped somewhere between 1,400 and 1,600 schoolchildren from Nigerian schools. The most famous case happened in 2014 when Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from their school in Chibok. The world erupted in outrage. Celebrities tweeted hashtags. World leaders condemned the attack. Michelle Obama held up a sign. Everyone promised to bring back our girls.

Eleven years later, 87 of those girls remain missing. They were sixteen when they were taken. They’re twenty-seven now, if they’re still breathing. Some were forced to marry their captors. Some died in captivity. Some gave birth to the children of the men who kidnapped them. The Chibok school itself sits in ruins, a monument to broken promises and forgotten victims.

Compare this to 9/11 for a moment. That attack killed 2,977 people. We went to war. We built memorials. We passed laws. We vowed to never forget. Every year on September 11, the nation pauses. We read names. We observe moments of silence. We make damn sure nobody forgets those 2,977 souls.

Nigeria has lost 52,000 Christians to religious violence and we changed the channel. We built nothing. We remember no one. We observe no moments of silence. Christian blood is apparently worth less than other blood. I’d love for someone to explain why.

Stop Calling It “Farmer-Herder Conflict” – This Is Genocide and the Media Knows It

The killers have names and we need to use them. Boko Haram translates roughly to “Western education is forbidden.” They’re the group that kidnapped the Chibok girls. They’ve been operating since 2009 with a stated goal of eliminating Christianity from northern Nigeria and establishing an Islamic caliphate. They’re not shy about their intentions. They film their executions and post them online. They announce their plans openly. They promise to kill every Christian they find. Then they do it.

ISWAP stands for Islamic State West Africa Province. They’re the ISIS-linked group holding Liah Sharibu. They released a video in 2019 showing the beheading of two Christian aid workers. The killer looked directly at the camera and vowed to murder every Christian they captured as revenge for Muslims killed in past conflicts. In December of that same year, they released another video showing the execution of ten Christians and one Muslim to avenge the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Christians were killed specifically because they were Christian. The video made that abundantly clear.

Fulani militants present a more complicated picture because the Western media desperately wants to sanitize their actions. News outlets call them “herders” and describe the violence as “farmer-herder conflicts” over land and resources. This framing is horseshit. These aren’t herders carrying sticks. They’re radicalized militants armed with military-grade weapons systematically targeting Christian farming communities. Between 2019 and 2023, Fulani militants were responsible for 55 percent of all Christian deaths in Nigeria. That’s not a land dispute. That’s ethnic and religious cleansing.

The media loves to deploy their favorite lie whenever these stories break: “Both Christians and Muslims are victims of violence in Nigeria.” Technically true. Meaningless in context. When Liah’s classmates were released, the terrorists told the community not to ever put their daughters in school again. When they behead Christians on video, they explicitly state it’s revenge for Muslims. When they raid villages, they burn churches while leaving mosques standing. When they take hostages, Christians who refuse to convert end up dead while Muslims go free.

Call it what it is. This is genocide. The word exists for a reason. Use it.

 

Nigeria Today, America Tomorrow – You’re Watching Your Future and Calling It ‘Over There’

You think this is a problem “over there” that can never touch you here. You’re wrong.

History shows us the same pattern repeating across centuries. Rome fed Christians to lions while crowds cheered. Nazi Germany spent years marginalizing Jews before they started loading them onto trains. The Soviet Union killed twenty million Christians during seventy years of communist rule. ISIS erased ancient Christian communities from the Middle East in our own lifetimes. We watched it happen on television.

Now Nigeria burns while we scroll past.

What happens in Nigeria doesn’t stay in Nigeria. The pattern always spreads. Western society increasingly views Christians the same way Rome did: as obstacles, as threats, as enemies. We’re called bigots for believing what the Bible actually says. We’re labeled dangerous for refusing to celebrate what God calls sin. We’re treated as impediments to progress because we won’t worship at the altar of whatever new ideology demands our allegiance.

The progression follows four stages. First comes marginalization. Keep your faith private. Don’t impose your beliefs on others. Second comes vilification. Your beliefs are hateful. Your values hurt people. Third comes legislation. Your beliefs are now illegal. Express them and face consequences.

Fourth comes persecution. Your beliefs make you an enemy.

You must be eliminated.

America sits somewhere between stages two and three right now. Nigeria reached stage four years ago. We’re watching our future play out in real time and pretending it’s impossible here. Christians are the most persecuted religious group on the planet. Roughly 360 million Christians face high levels of persecution worldwide. But Western culture insists we’re the privileged oppressors. We’re told to check our Christian privilege while our brothers and sisters die for the faith we treat like a hobby.

Remember that poem about the Holocaust? First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out. First they came for Nigerian Christians and you’re reading about it right now. First they came for Middle Eastern Christians and we watched it on the news between commercials. First they came for Chinese Christians and we kept buying their products anyway. When they come for American Christians, who exactly will be left to speak up?

The question worth asking is this: Will you wait until your children are hiding under their beds? Or will you pay attention now while there’s still time to do something?

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