The Pope no longer speaks or acts as a shepherd willing to defend his flock.
In Nigeria, Christians are being attacked, kidnapped, raped, and murdered in churches, schools, and villages by Islamist groups such as Boko Haram, places that are neither wealthy nor strategically valuable.
These crimes are not driven by economics or land disputes, they are religiously motivated violence, openly justified by extremist ideology.
To describe this as a vague “question of economics” or to speak in passive terms, “many Christians have died” obscures responsibility and denies victims the truth.
Northern Nigerian Muslims did not “come to Nigeria” as victims of intolerance; they are indigenous peoples who were Islamized centuries ago, and today it is Christians who are being persecuted for their faith.
Calling this “mutual suffering” or implying moral equivalence is dishonest.
Authentic religious freedom does not exist under Islamist rule, and pretending otherwise abandons Christians who live under constant threat.
Christian teaching calls for love, restraint, and moral conduct, not surrender to violence or silence in the face of murder.
Turning the other cheek does not mean refusing to name evil or denying the right to defend innocent life.
By minimizing persecution, shifting blame, or cloaking reality in euphemisms, Church leadership fails its duty to comfort the afflicted and to speak truthfully.
With such leadership, it is no surprise that TRUMP now speaks more clearly in defense of persecuted Christians than those entrusted with their spiritual care. |
