Catholic News Agency reports (December 26, 2025) on U.S. military operations in Nigeria targeting ISIS militants allegedly responsible for Christian persecution. President Donald Trump framed the strikes as retaliation for ongoing violence against Christians, vowing “hell to pay” if attacks continue. The article cites statistics claiming Nigeria as the “most dangerous country in the world to be Christian,” with alleged 7,000 Christians killed in 2025. Nigerian authorities issued a generic condemnation of “terrorist violence whether directed at Christians, Muslims, or other communities,” while commentators debate whether to extend strikes to Fulani militias accused of anti-Christian violence.
Naturalistic Reduction of Religious Persecution to Mere Military Problem
The entire discourse reduces supernatural warfare to geopolitical calculations. Nowhere does the article acknowledge that Nigeria’s catastrophe stems from systemic apostasy from Quas primas (1925) which declared: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” By omitting this theological foundation, the report exemplifies the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili sane (1907) which decried those who “limit the object of faith to the purely supernatural order” (Proposition 22).
“Terrorist violence in any form whether directed at Christians, Muslims, or other communities remains an affront to Nigeria’s values”
This Nigerian government statement—uncritically quoted—embodies the religious indifferentism anathematized by Pius IX: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 17). Equating attacks on Christ’s Mystical Body with violence against heretics and infidels constitutes blasphemy against the Blood of Martyrs.
American Interventionism as False Messianism
Trump’s boast that “there was hell to pay” for anti-Christian violence presumes the United States—a Masonic republic founded on religious indifference—can arbitrate conflicts arising from Nigeria’s rejection of Catholic social order. This contradicts Pius IX’s condemnation of the error that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus, Proposition 55). Military strikes without simultaneous demand for Nigeria’s submission to Christ the King are as futile as treating cancer with bandages.
The article’s focus on Fulani militias versus ISIS factions ignores the symptomatic nature of Islamic violence—a natural consequence of nations abandoning the Social Reign of Christ. As Pius XI warned: “The empire of Christ over all nations was rejected… The seeds of discord sown far and wide; and, as the main result, beacons of war were lit, causing bloodshed of which even the fiercest warfare of the past offers no example” (Quas primas).
Ecumenical Betrayal in “Christian” Terminology
Repeated references to “Christian persecution” conceal a poisonous ecumenism. The article never distinguishes between authentic Catholics and Protestant sects—many of whom actively subvert Church teaching. This aligns with Modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Lamentabili, cf. Syllabus Proposition 18).
“The U.S. government…must target the Fulani ethnic militia that are concentrated in the north-central states”
Douglas Burton’s call for expanded military action exemplifies naturalistic folly. No earthly power can resolve persecution originating in Nigeria’s rejection of its baptismal destiny as a Catholic nation. The true solution appears in Quas primas: “When countries…acknowledge the dominion of Christ, they will enjoy real freedom, harmony, and peace.”
Omission of the Only Remedy: Social Reign of Christ the King
The article’s gravest failure is silence about the unica salus—Nigeria’s restoration as a confessional Catholic state. Nowhere does it mention the necessity of:
- Repealing Nigeria’s secular constitution
- Establishing Catholicism as state religion
- Outlawing false worship publicly
- Restoring the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the nation’s heart
This omission reveals the conciliar sect’s complicity in Nigeria’s martyrdom. By abandoning Pius XI’s program for Christian social order, the Vatican occupiers have left Nigerian Catholics defenseless against jihadist onslaught. As the Syllabus declares: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Proposition 24)—a truth systematically betrayed by post-conciliar “popes” who reduced the Church to a humanitarian NGO.
Source:
Trump vows more strikes on Nigerian militants due to Christian persecution (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.12.2025