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Nigerian Priest: “When Religion Becomes a Weapon, it Blinds the People”, by Ngala Killian Chimtom – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Ngala Killian Chimtom, Catholic World Report, Dec. 18, 2025

Ngala Killian Chimtom is a Cameroonian journalist with eleven years of working experience. He currently work as a reporter and news anchor person for the Cameroon Radio Television, (both radio and television). Chimtom is also a stringer for a number of news organizations, including IPS, Ooskanews, Free Speech Radio News, Christian Science Monitor, CAJNews Africa; CAJNews, CNN.com and Dpa.

When “a state fails to protect a particular faith group,” says Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, “and its institutions act with bias or complicity, the situation crosses both the moral and legal thresholds into what international law would call genocidal persecution.”

Across Africa, faith is a profound source of hope, charity, and community. Yet in nations like Nigeria, it has also become the continent’s most volatile political fault line, often manipulated for power and dominance. In a recent essay at VoiceAfrique titled “Faith Weaponized: The Crisis of Religion and Africa’s Deepest Political Fault Line,” Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, a Nigerian priest serving in the Niger Republic, dissects this dangerous paradox.

Fr. Anwuchie argues that the violence against Christians is not merely extremist terrorism, but a symptom of a deeper, systemic crisis he defines as the “politicization of religion and the religionization of politics.” …

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