Even Bill Maher, a liberal HBO host with a proud history of atheism, is calling out the plight of Nigerian Christians.
As leftist Americans line up to condemn the “genocide” they claim is happening in Gaza, they are averting their eyes from a very clear problem faced by African Christians. While Palestine flags adorn X bios and calls for peace in the Middle East, where is the same energy for those being murdered for their faith in Niger?
Maher pointed this out during a conversation with South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican, on his late-night show.
Jihadist violence has turned Nigeria into the deadliest place on earth for Christians.
Thank you @BillMaher for breaking the silence. Faith is worth defending. ✝️ pic.twitter.com/3DKU0OdHwp
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) October 25, 2025
“The fact that this issue has not gotten on people’s radar… It’s pretty amazing,” Maher said.
“Right, no one’s talking about it,” Mace nodded.
“If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck,” the host added bluntly. “You are in a bubble. And again, I’m not Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more – these are the Islamists, Boko Haram – this is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?”
Lanre Williams-Ayedun, senior vice president of international programs at World Relief, wrote an op-ed for Fox News on this very subject, giving life to a story that nobody seems interested in covering.
“I grew up in Niger. I spent my childhood in the Sahel region in a time when a Christian in a Muslim-majority region could expect to live in relative peace and optimism. Growing up, I knew many mixed-faith Nigerian families that lived in harmony. As a nation and as a region, we had hope. The promises of the green revolution, trade, and the West African economic community caused us to anticipate a trajectory of growth,” she wrote.
But desperation has caused an outpouring of violence among the country’s people.
“When people are desperate, we see increases in extremism and religious persecution. Nigeria is divided almost along the cardinal ordinances into Muslim-majority regions and Christian and Catholic sections. Factors embedded from colonial days compound with climate shifts that make a nomadic lifestyle unsustainable, have spilled into untenable animosity that cuts along religious affiliations,” she explained.
“Being a Christian in Nigeria is no longer a simple matter. Jihadist organizations, including Boko Haram, have exercised religiously implicated killings over the last 16 years, massacring 125,009 Christians and over 60,000 “liberal” Muslims who do not share the extremist views of the prevailing groups. In that time, 19,100 churches have been sacked. Now, according to Open Doors, more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world, combined, even though Nigeria is seventh out of the top 50 countries known for persecution of Christians,” Williams-Ayedun noted.
Ultimately, she says, it’s “up to us as U.S. consumers of media and information to seek out news of our siblings in Christ around the world. Newsrooms respond to demand; as we give our attention abroad, coverage will improve.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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