TOBIAS Yahaya woke in the middle of an April night in 2023 to hear men breaking into his home in Sokoto, a city in the extreme north west of Nigeria.
Three individuals had scaled a high fence surrounding the compound of the house where he lived with his wife and four children aged between eight and three years and cut through coils of barbed wire. He saw them approaching.
A man has been arrested by Toronto police after a North York church was vandalized multiple times over several months.
The incidents happened between Aug. 6, 2025, and May 5, 2026.
Name is of Persian origin.
“The night I was abducted, they killed my mother and kidnapped my older sister and me. The slightest mistakes are severely punished. For women, they kill their children and throw them into a hole. They would send me to kill people on my own, and when I refused, I was whipped all over my body.” — persecution.org, January 22, 2026, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
For Christians around the world, Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, in commemoration of the entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.
On Palm Sunday this year, on Saturday 29 March, Christians in the city of Jos in northern Nigeria’s Plateau State saw AK-wielding jihadists enter their city on motorbike. Dozens were then slaughtered. One local leader told me of the pain of praying with a single mother whose 17-year-old son was murdered. Another woman was pregnant when she was shot dead.
Christians in Syria are once again under attack by Islamic groups affiliated with the country’s jihadist regime, headed by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
After massacres against Alawites and Druze minorities in Syria and the world turning a blind eye.
The attacks have begun on Christians.
And world "leaders" welcome terrorist Al-Jolani.
Sickening.
pic.twitter.com/a8QSszkpiL— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) March 28, 2026
“They had the audacity to tell us that we are poor Christians, and we should be thankful that their son had only sodomized the child, ‘not raped her’…. Muslims think that they can commit any crime against us, and no one would dare oppose them.” — Father of a 6-year-old girl attacked by her tutor, morningstarnews.org, December 17, 2025, Pakistan.
Driving through the vast, scorched landscape, I hear the words that have followed me all day. ‘They roasted the pastor and his wife alive in the church. We heard their screams.’
Plateau State stretches to the horizon. Rich black soil that once grew cassava and sugar cane is now ash. Trees are encrusted with soot. Fields of maize that shone gold in the sun are grey and lifeless, stalk after stalk standing in formation like an army frozen in defeat.
Bricks lie scattered in the scrub. Concrete blocks jut from the earth like jagged teeth. Roofs have collapsed inward.
As Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas, millions are also suffering from severe pressures and persecution in majority-Muslim countries. This includes post-Soviet states, countries governed by Sharia law, and officially secular nations such as Turkey.
According to a 2024 Human Rights Violations Report authored by Turkey’s Association of Protestant Churches, Christians are subject to increased hate crimes, hate speech, threats, discrimination, and dismissal from their jobs because of their religion. They also experience physical assaults, no official recognition of the Protestant church, and a lack of cemeteries for Christians. Foreign Christians are deported or banned entry by denying them residence visas. The Protestant community in Turkey is not allowed to open their own churches nor train their own spiritual leaders, forcing them to operate as ‘associations.’
Why does our government import death cultists who want to kill us to Canada?
Indonesia has a reputation for being a “moderate” Muslim nation, but the wind in the Islamic world as a whole is blowing in the opposite direction, as a group of Christians has just discovered.
Morning Star News, which tracks the persecution of Christians worldwide, reported Tuesday that “as police looked on, Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from attending a Christmas service, according to local media.”
Carney says all Canadians "must come together" around the values of Eid:
"These are Muslim values. These are Canadian values." pic.twitter.com/1WMk1iBcUX
— Western Standard (@WSOnlineNews) June 6, 2025
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of October 2025.
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Mozambique: On Oct. 8, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) terror group launched a series of savage attacks targeting Christian communities in Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces. The assaults resulted in the beheading of 30 Christians, widespread arson, and the destruction of at least five churches and 100 homes. Many other Christians—including women and their daughters—were herded away. The Muslim terrorists later boasted of their handiwork by releasing photos of themselves beheading and shooting civilians at close range.
Douglas Todd: More people in the West are overcoming ignorance or indifference to learn about the atrocities being visited upon many church members in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.
There are many reasons that massacres of Nigerian Christians haven’t received much media attention in the West, particularly compared with the coverage of conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
And one of those reasons is that many Nigerians, including in Canada, are afraid to speak out publicly against the atrocities carried out by Jihadist extremists and others, some of which occur during worship services. NGOs estimate tens of thousands of deaths and abductions.
Nigeria’s Christians are being pushed to the brink of extinction – and could be wiped off the map within two generations without urgent international intervention.
That’s the chilling warning from Emeka Umeagbalasi, the outspoken founder of Nigeria’s International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety). And he’s not mincing his words.
The veteran activist says a silent, systematic genocide has swept Africa’s most populous nation for nearly two decades – a ‘long-running, coordinated campaign’ of killings, kidnappings and church burnings carried out mostly by Islamist militants and enabled by the Nigerian state itself.
Jihadist violence continues to escalate in Nigeria. Christians in the country face systematic, targeted violence, primarily from Islamic terror groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), alongside radical Muslim Fulani factions. These groups explicitly target Christians through killings, kidnappings, sexual violence, and destruction of villages. The Nigerian government’s failure to protect Christians and punish perpetrators has only strengthened the Islamic militants’ influence.
The violence against Christians in Nigeria has escalated sharply since at least 2011, with documented killings and attacks increasing steadily. Data from Open Doors show over 41,000 Christian deaths between October 2011 and September 2024, highlighting a prolonged and intensifying crisis.
Donald Trump has threatened to send the US military into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if the African country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.
Mr Trump said on on Saturday that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria”.
Yes sir.
The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria — and anywhere — must end immediately. The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. pic.twitter.com/C0v9RHGoS1
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) November 1, 2025
“These atrocities are just part of a continuing wave of attacks by the Islamic State Mozambique (IS-M), which has been active in northern Mozambique since 2017, killing an estimated 1,800 Christians and displacing more than half a million people. The militants … establish roadblocks to intercept travelers, particularly Christians, who are charged “tolls” ranging from $150 to $460 to continue their journeys. IS-M continues to demand that Christians convert to Islam, submit to IS authority and pay jizya (“tribute”), or face death. — Barnabas Aid, September 14, 2025, Mozambique.”
