It’s one of the greatest moral outrages of our time—yet the media yawns, and the globalist elite look the other way. Across the Middle East and Africa, Christians are being hunted, tortured, and exterminated simply for their faith. Entire communities are being wiped out, little girls kidnapped and forced into marriages, pastors jailed for preaching the Gospel, and churches burned to the ground. And yet, where is the global condemnation? Where is the action?
Thankfully, some in Congress are refusing to stay silent.
This week, West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley stepped up and introduced a resolution demanding that the United States defend religious liberty abroad by standing with persecuted Christians in Muslim-majority nations. Their message is clear and long overdue: America can no longer sit idly by while our brothers and sisters in Christ are slaughtered for refusing to renounce their faith.
“In Nigeria alone, more than 50,000 Christians have been martyred and more than 5 million have been displaced simply for professing their faith,” Moore said. And it’s not just Nigeria. Christians are under siege in Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan, Iran, and across the Islamic world. Churches are shuttered. Worship is outlawed. Evangelism is criminalized. This is not an occasional tragedy—it is a systematic war on Christianity.
The recent massacre in Nigeria’s Benue State is just one horrifying example. Around 200 Christians were murdered by Islamic jihadists shouting “Allahu Akbar.” These were not soldiers—these were displaced villagers, already victims of previous jihadist attacks. They were hunted down *again* because they dared to return to their homes.
This is evil, plain and simple.
Senator Hawley didn’t mince words: “Our country was founded on religious liberty. We cannot sit on the sidelines as Christians around the world are being persecuted for declaring Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.”
He’s right. America’s moral foundation is rooted in the idea of unalienable rights, chief among them the freedom to worship. When foreign regimes and terrorist groups brutally suppress that freedom, the United States has not just a right—but a duty—to act. That doesn’t mean military intervention. Moore and Hawley are calling for diplomatic pressure, trade leverage, and foreign aid accountability. In other words: if you want to be our partner, you don’t get to persecute Christians.
This ought to be a bipartisan issue. But of course, it’s not. The same Democrats who scream about “Islamophobia” every time someone mentions radical jihad are nowhere to be found when Christians are the ones bleeding in the streets. They’ll bend over backwards to defend the rights of every other group on the planet, but when it comes to protecting Christians, suddenly they lose their voice.
And let’s not forget how we got here. As Moore rightly pointed out, the 2003 invasion of Iraq—championed by the same Bush-era neocons who now cozy up to the left—destabilized an entire region. The Christian population of Iraq, once over a million strong, has now been nearly eradicated. That’s what happens when you remove strongmen without a plan, and then abandon the region to chaos and extremism.
President Trump understands this. Unlike the Obama-Biden foreign policy doctrine of apology and appeasement, Trump’s approach is unapologetically pro-Christian and pro-American. He made it clear during his first term that the United States would not tolerate the slaughter of Christians on his watch. And under his renewed leadership, with allies like Moore and Hawley in Congress, we have a chance to finally make good on that promise.
This resolution is just a first step. But it’s a vital one. It signals to the world that the United States will no longer turn a blind eye to Christian persecution. That our values are not for sale. And that if you want to do business with America, you better stop killing Christians.
It’s time to bring moral clarity back to our foreign policy. No more excuses. No more silence. When it comes to standing up for the persecuted Church, the time for action is now.
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