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Jihadist forces struck Christian communities in Nigeria this week, killing twenty-seven believers in a single wave of assaults aimed at the total removal of the Church from the country. The attackers left no doubt about their purpose, stating openly that Christianity itself must be wiped from the soil.
These raids continue a campaign of calculated dispossession that has claimed thousands of lives in recent years and driven surviving households from their ancestral lands. The perpetrators operate as agents of a rival religious order that brooks no rival and demands submission or extinction.
Such violence stands in direct line with the Islamic conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries that swept through North Africa, extinguishing the vibrant Christian churches of Carthage, Alexandria, and the surrounding provinces within a few generations. What was accomplished then by sword and subjugation now advances again under the same banner.
The governing principle remains unchanged across the centuries: the City of God endures persecution but never yields its claim to the souls and lands entrusted to it by divine covenant. Scripture records that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church, yet the same Word commands the faithful to contend for the inheritance left to their children.
The present assaults expose the hollow claims of modern tolerance that forbid Christian nations from naming and resisting the explicit religious hostility directed against them. When one faith declares its intention to obliterate another, the response cannot be accommodation but resolute defense of household, parish, and people.
The Nigerian martyrs join the long roll of those who have sealed their confession with blood rather than renounce the Creed. Their witness condemns every policy that treats such aggression as a mere security problem detached from its theological root.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject every counsel of retreat and instead strengthen ties of prayer, material aid, and political clarity with the suffering Church. Nations still bearing the name of Christ are bound to recognize the threat and cease subsidizing the advance of those who openly seek Christendom's extinction.
Only a return to ordered Christian sovereignty, willing to name the enemy and protect its own, can halt the repetition of ancient losses on new soil. The blood of these twenty-seven demands nothing less.
