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Catholic Vote: Warning from 2024: Nigerian Bishop Describes Reality of Genocide Against Christians as Hatred, Not Climate Change – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Catholic Vote: Warning from 2024: Nigerian Bishop Describes Reality of Genocide Against Christians as Hatred, Not Climate Change

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On Oct. 31, 2025, President Donald Trump designated Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” in response to calls to address the deadly persecution of Christians taking place there. Trump warned the Nigerian government Nov. 1 that if it continues to allow Christians to be killed, the United States would potentially take action through the U.S. Department of War to protect the Christians. Many outlets continue to attribute the violence against local communities to consequences of climate change affecting all Nigerians rather than religious persecution. In February 2024, Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi addressed this claim in an interview with CatholicVote, republished below.

A Nigerian bishop recently described the devastating reality that Islamist Fulani terrorists are committing a genocide against Christians, and he called on the world to respond.

The genocide in Nigeria “should be the concern of every other human being, everybody, man and woman, of goodwill,” Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of the diocese of Makurdi, in Benue State of Nigeria, told CatholicVote in an interview this week.

On December 23 and 24, 2023, Islamist Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed more than 200 Christians while they were sleeping in local villages or returning from church services in the Central Plateau State of Nigeria.

This attack was one among many that have happened since at least 2015. Secular media outlets covering this conflict have claimed that the attacks are due to climate change and shrinking available land. …

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