Cruz vows accountability for Nigerian Christian killings and violence
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FOX first: The leading Republican Sen. A diplomatic war is being carried out between TED Cruz, R-Texas and Nigerian government officials. Cruz warned these officials that tens of thousands of Christians in Nigeria will be responsible for the reported “mass segment”. Authorities claimed that Cruz was lying, although even one Pope called the murders to the public, he claims that there was a religious harmony in the country.
According to the international Christian lawyer group Open Doors International’s 2025 World Monitoring List (WWL), Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to become a Christian. 48% of the population is Christian. However, 4,476 Christians, who reported that WWL was killed around the world during the last reporting period, were in Nigeria.
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Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas introduced the Nigerian Religious Freedom Calculation Law, which he said he would target with “strong sanctions and other tools”. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
On Saturday, the Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu spokesman said Cruz to a Lagos in the Nigeria newspaper, “This malicious, hearing lies should stop”.
In response, Cruz, the President of the Senate African and Global Health Policy Sub -Committee, to Fox News Digital, “Nigeria’s federal government and a dozen state government applies the laws of blasphemy in criminal and sharia codes and ignore the violence of the mafia, aiming at Christians.”
On Friday, Nigeria Information Minister Muhammad Idris only spoke with Fox News Digital and rejected Cruz’s allegations that Christians were massacred in his country. “The Nigerian government rejects it. This is definitely not true,” he said.
In response, you. Cruz told FOX News Digital murders, “The United States knows who these people are and I plan to keep them responsible”.
On June 13, 2025, Pope Leo XIV condemned the murders of 200 people in the Yelewata community in Nigeria. (Associated Press)
“Since 2009, more than 50,000 Christians in Nigeria have been massacred and more than 20,000 Christian schools have been destroyed. These atrocities are directly linked to the policies of Nigerian Federal and State officials. At certain places, at certain times, at certain times, the result of many agreements about what these problems are.
Cruz X published on Friday: “Nigeria authorities, Islamist jihadists ignore the mass murder of Christians and even make it easier. It is time to hold responsible ones responsible.” “Nigerian Religious Freedom Act will target these officials with strong sanctions and other tools,” he referred to a new bill introduced in the Senate.
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This immediately received a response from Nigerian Presidential Spokesman Bayo Onanuga. Onanuga interviewed by Nigerian Daily Post the next day, “Senator, this malicious stop, stopped lies against my country. Christians are not targeted. We have religious harmony in our country.”
Idris, Fox News Digital’s Comments of Cruz “is very misleading. This is not true. This is not the reflection of what is in this place. So you say that more than 20,000 churches are burned.
“Nigeria is a very faithful country, that is, a country with more than one religion. We have Christians, we have Muslims, we have those who do not believe any of these two religions. The Nigerian government decides to ensure that religious organizations in this country, but there are extreme organizations in this country.”
St Leo Catholic Church members organize a procession for Lagos, Nigeria, Ikeja and Mark Palm Sunday on April 13, 2025. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi) (Photo: Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images)
Idris, “Some of these extremist supporters and a series of Muslims with a series of violent extremism supported a series of Christians and a series of Muslims killed in a unfortunate way. This is not true. This is not right, this is not the wrong, it is absolutely unfortunate.
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Open Doors Natalie Blair shows that independent data from Nigeria can be targeted by Christians’ radical excession supporters, and that radical excessive supporters can kill Muslims who do not comply with their radical ideologies. ” However, Blair, a senior member of the Open Doors defender team, said Fox News Digital, “Boko Haram and Iswap (Islamic State West African Province) clearly and over and over and over and over and over again, and many sacrifices, and many victims, said that they did not shout ‘All,’ ‘.
Blair added: “According to Religious Freedom Observatory in Africa– To accept military and terrorist deaths in Northern Nigeria – the data of the murdered civilians are clear: more Christians are killed by Muslims by extremist supporters – if you are a Christian, it will be 6.5 times more than a Muslim. This does not make the pain of a Muslim less important, It just makes it less likely. “
President Bola, Ahmed Tinubu, told a Nigerian newspaper that Ted Cruz should “stop this malicious, risible lies” on the murders. (Ton molina/Getty Images)
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe’s makurdi bishop is almost only Christian. However, the continuous and increasing attacks of Muslim Fulani militants, led to a statement at a congress hearing in Washington in Washington.
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Idris despised the bishop’s congress expression: “Let me say that the position of the bishop is an extreme position. This is not true. The Nigerian government has refuted it in the past.”
The funeral ceremony for 27 Christians reportedly killed by Islamist Fulani tribes in the village of Ta-Hoss in Nigeria. (Courtesy: Christian Solidarity International (CSI))
Open doors’ Blair, Nigerian peasants responded with access, “Violence should listen to the voices of those who live first -handed. People on the ground do not trust anyone to pay for these violent crimes. The reason for this, they have seen hundreds of suspects arrested for years, they have never been released.” “
“The right to life, which is guaranteed in accordance with the 33rd part of the Nigerian Constitution in 1999, is meaningless unless the state acts determined to punish those who violate it. The ongoing culture of punishment will only lead to more bloodshed and will continue to erode public confidence in the rule of law.”
