The Bloody Christmas No One Is Talking About

Christmas is a busy time for churches. Pastors and their staff bustle to prepare for Christmas pageants, choirs, prayer meetings….and of course, the Christmas services. The congregants are also making their own preparations; hanging lights in their homes, wrapping gifts, dusting off nativity sets, baking, cooking, and so much more. Christians engage in this flurry of activity to joyfully remember the birth of Christ. But days that were supposed to be filled with joy and merriment were instead filled with violence and horror in villages on the other side of the world.

While here in the US our kids waited with anxious anticipation for Christmas morning, in Nigeria, Islamic terror groups butchered five Christian children along with their father, a pastor, and their mother. They were not the only ones who met this horrible fate. These militants also killed over 160 people and wounded over 300 in 48 hours over the Christmas holiday. Most were women, children, and elderly according to Morning Star News. They also burnt over 220 homes. Sadly, this is a common occurrence in this part of Africa.

How many people from a particular group have to die before the world takes notice and protests erupt across college campuses? 100? 1000? How about 5000? In 2022 alone, 5068 Nigerians were killed or disappeared for being Christian according to the Nigerian…