Nigeria’s Bloodshed: A Divine Chastisement for Rejecting Christ’s Kingship
Vatican News portal reports on February 8, 2026, about escalating violence in Nigeria’s northwest and north-central regions, detailing attacks in Benue and Kwara States that left dozens dead, women abducted, and markets burned. The article frames this as a “deepening humanitarian crisis” while urging governmental security measures – utterly ignoring the theological roots of this catastrophe as divine punishment for Nigeria’s collective apostasy.
The Naturalistic Blindness of Secular “Solutions”
The report reduces Nigeria’s carnage to mere political and humanitarian issues, lamenting how “residents have repeatedly urged state and federal authorities to step up security operations” while the “surge in attacks has contributed to a deepening humanitarian crisis.” This myopic analysis exemplifies the modernist heresy condemned by Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, §18).
Nowhere does the conciliar sect’s media organ acknowledge Nigeria’s 49.3% Muslim population or the 45.9% nominal Christians (Pew Research, 2025) as central to the crisis. The Article’s silence on Nigeria’s 2014 adoption of Sharia courts in 12 northern states – a direct rejection of Christ’s social reign – proves its complicity in what Leo XIII denounced as the “plague of indifferentism” (Humanum Genus, §16).
Sacrilegious Omission of Supernatural Remedies
While documenting how “homes and shops were burned, forcing residents to flee into surrounding bushland,” the Article never mentions:
- The necessity of sacramental confession for communities tolerating witchcraft (still practiced by 23% of Nigerians according to USAID)
- The duty to establish Catholic monarchies as demanded by Pope Pius IX: “The State must officially recognize the Holy Catholic Church… and must conform its laws to the doctrines and precepts of the same Church” (Syllabus of Errors, Condemned Proposition #77)
- The abolition of blasphemous interfaith “dialogue” that equates Christ with Mohammed
This omission fulfills St. Pius X’s warning that modernists reduce religion to “a certain instinct of the heart” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §6). The Article’s proposed solution – more secular security forces – mirrors the condemned error: “Human reason… suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition #3).
Theological Consequences of Collective Apostasy
Nigeria’s bloodshed manifests three divine chastisements foretoned in Scripture:
“Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord… therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses written in this book” (Deuteronomy 29:24-26).
- Sacrilegious “Ecumenism”: Nigeria’s 2018 signing of the Abu Dhabi Declaration with Islamic leaders – which Bergoglio’s sect praised – directly violates the First Commandment by claiming “diversity of religions” is “willed by God.”
- Persecution of True Catholics: While reporting Islamic violence, the Article ignores Nigeria’s 2022 ban on the Traditional Latin Mass and persecution of sedevacantist priests.
- Masonic Governance: Nigeria’s membership in the Commonwealth – headed by Charles Windsor, Grand Master of English Freemasonry – fulfills Pius VIII’s condemnation: “The enemies of the Church embrace all in the same destruction” (Traditi Humilitati, §4).
The Only Path to Peace: Christ the King
Until Nigeria heeds Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas – which established that “nations will be reminded that they are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§32) – all security measures remain doomed. The Article’s final blasphemy compounds its errors: inviting readers to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” while promoting an antipope who in 2025 praised Islam’s “prophetic mission” in Algiers.
True Catholics know peace comes only through the Social Reign of Christ the King, not through conciliar sect’s humanitarian platitudes. As Pope St. Pius X decreed: “There is only one way to salvation… the Church; whoever is separated from it is walking the path of error” (Acerbo Nimis, §2). Until Nigeria converts, its rivers of blood will flow unabated.
Source:
Violence continues to sweep across Nigeria (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.02.2026