Catholic News Agency reports on November 21, 2025, that “Bishop” Wilfred Anagbe of Makurdi diocese testified before a U.S. congressional subcommittee, pleading for American military intervention in Nigeria to stop alleged religious persecution. The hearing occurred days after 25 schoolgirls were abducted from a Catholic boarding school. Anagbe claimed Christianity faces “elimination” in northern Nigeria without foreign intervention, urging sanctions under the Magnitsky Act and expanded humanitarian aid. Republican Congressman Chris Smith declared Nigeria “ground zero for religious persecution,” citing Open Doors statistics of 52,000 Christians killed since 2009. Democratic representatives cautioned against viewing violence as purely religious while acknowledging government failure to protect citizens.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Solutions
The spectacle of a Catholic prelate begging earthly powers for military salvation constitutes blasphemous inversion of Christ’s social kingship. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) establishes that “the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men” and that rulers must “publicly honor and obey” Christ to secure true peace. Yet Anagbe’s testimony contains zero references to Nigeria’s need for social reign of Christ the King, proposing instead the modernist heresy of salvation through secular geopolitics.
This approach mirrors the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Unam Sanctam‘s principle that “every human creature must be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” The testimony omits any call for Nigeria’s conversion to Catholicism or restoration of the Church’s temporal rights – the only true solution to persecution. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
Theological Amnesia Regarding Martyrdom
Anagbe’s claim that Christianity risks “elimination” ignores the Church’s perennial teaching on martyrdom’s redemptive power. Tertullian’s Apologeticus reminds us that “the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,” yet this prelate portrays persecution as purely negative. The testimony contains no exhortation to spiritual combat through prayer, penance, or fidelity to Tradition – only demands for humanitarian aid and drone strikes.
This naturalistic approach betrays ignorance of Pope Leo XIII’s teaching in Sapientiae Christianae: “The practice of the Christian faith is the source of that virtue which gives to public life its order and fruitfulness.” By reducing Nigeria’s crisis to “human rights” violations rather than supernatural warfare against Satan, Anagbe echoes the modernist error condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
Conciliar Sect’s Abdication of Spiritual Authority
The “bishop’s” plea to secular governments constitutes public admission of the conciliar sect’s impotence. True shepherds like Pope Pius V organized the Holy League against Ottoman aggression after first calling for rosary crusades. In contrast, Anagbe’s testimony shows complete reliance on geopolitical maneuvering rather than spiritual weapons.
This reflects the neo-church’s systematic dismantling of the Church’s temporal power since Vatican II. The conciliar sect’s 2019 Abu Dhabi Declaration claims “pluralism and diversity of religions” as “willed by God,” rendering its members incapable of demanding Nigeria’s conversion to Catholicism. As Pius IX condemned: “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, Error 17).
Omission of Key Persecution Factors
The testimony carefully avoids mentioning three elephants in the sanctuary:
1. Islamic doctrine’s inherent hostility toward Christianity, affirmed in Quranic texts like Sura 9:29
2. The conciliar sect’s own ecumenical collaboration with Muslim leaders enabling persecution
3. Nigeria’s apostate clergy who’ve dismantled Catholic resistance through liturgical abuse and doctrinal corruption
This selective narrative serves the globalist agenda of permanent conflict management rather than Christian victory. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned in 1986: “The new rights of man end up constructing the Tower of Babel.”
Sacramental Sabotage at the Root
Nowhere does Anagbe acknowledge that Nigeria’s crisis stems from the conciliar sect’s destruction of sacramental life. When Novus Ordo “Mass” centers on community meal rather than propitiatory sacrifice, and confessions are replaced with communal “penance services,” grace diminishes in society. St. Pius X taught in Pascendi that sacraments impart “supernatural virtues which put the evil spirits to flight.” Yet Nigeria’s conciliar churches offer motivational talks instead of exorcisms, guitar Masses instead of Eucharistic reparations.
The true solution lies not in Pentagon intervention but restoration of:
– Daily Traditional Latin Mass
– Eucharistic processions reclaiming public space
– Consecration of Nigeria to Christ the King
– Missionary orders preaching uncompromised doctrine
Until Nigeria’s prelates demand these supernatural remedies rather than F-35 fighter jets, their cries to Congress constitute empty theater. As Our Lord warned: “Without me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
Source:
Nigerian bishop calls for U.S. military intervention at congressional hearing (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025