As you read this, just know that Chibok from where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in 2014 known as the “Chibok Girls” is a community populated primarily by the Kibabku people and is about 95% Christian. After nearly emptying this unfortunate predominantly Christian region of its inhabitants, and destroying nearly all their churches, they’re now burning schools because that is how jihad works. They will replace the churches with mosques and schools with radicalization centers and just like that, in only few years, you have a more brutal impression of Afghanistan in Nigeria. This is what they want and they’re intent on accomplishing it. They will fail.

One year ago, Fulani Islamic terrorists stormed Yelwata, Nigeria, slaughtering more than 200 Christians. Most were women and children sheltering at a local Catholic mission. Today, we remember the martyrs. The world must not forget the Christian genocide in Nigeria.

Ethiopia's Orthodox Church is raising the alarm over a fresh wave of violence in Oromia, where dozens of Christians were reportedly killed and hundreds displaced. @alysonle tells you more.

Testifying to congress is a vital part of our democratic process. Any group that targets people because they participate in our democracy is itself a threat to democracy.

@Sean_ADFIntl was put on @splcenter’s ‘hate list’ for defending persecuted Christians in Nigeria. The actual hate is coming from radical Islamist militant groups who have killed thousands of Christians. Put Boko Haram and IS on a hate list instead.

Waiting for @splcenter to explain why our @Sean_ADFIntl is on the list... x.com/Sean_ADFIntl/status/20…

For years, the SPLC has labeled Americans as "extremists," put them on lists, and raised millions of dollars off those accusations. 

If you're going to smear people as extremists, you ought to be able to explain the standard. The SPLC claims it has "specific criteria" for who ends up in its extremist files, yet the people making those decisions operate behind closed doors. That's because this was never about fighting hate. It's about targeting people they disagree with politically.

Let’s make one thing very clear: signing up for girls’ wrestling is in NO way a permission slip for sexual assault. As @ADFLegal explained in our lawsuit: “Digital penetration falls outside the scope of implied consent to participating in athletics because, under normal circumstances of girls wrestling, it is not a reasonably foreseeable hazard from the perspective of a girl wrestler. Nor is sexual assault or groping generally accepted by society as part of any lawful athletic contest.” Also: girls who sign up for girls’ wrestling aren’t consenting to wrestle boys. Kallie Keeler was betrayed by multiple adults in authority, who knowingly allowed her to wrestle a male without her knowledge or consent. They bear responsibility for what happened to her—and they are continuing to put female wrestlers in harm’s way through their actions and policies. That’s why, besides suing governing bodies @wiaawa, @waOSPI, and the Puyallup School District, we’re also suing: - State superintendent Chris Reykdal - Kallie’s principal - Her school district’s Title IX coordinator - Her opponent’s coach … and not just in their official capacities, but as individuals. I’m also glad to hear the local prosecutor is reportedly still considering action against those who failed to report the sexual assault, as required by law. These mandatory reporters should have reported the incident within 48 hours but waited 53 days. They should face consequences. We won’t rest until Kallie gets justice—and girls in Washington state get their sports back.

No president has done more for persecuted Christians than Donald J Trump. Glad to join @LaraLeaTrump to discuss what I witnessed in Nigeria after @POTUS asked me to investigate the persecution of Christians. We will never turn a blind eye to suffering Christians!

For this, the Southern Poverty Law Center put an international religious liberty lawyer on its "hate list": Sean Nelson told Congress that ADF's cases have involved --Christians unjustly imprisoned by Sharia courts, --false allegations of crimes merely for evangelism or protecting Christian converts or operating charities, --Christians kidnapped and tortured --girls taken from their parents and forced into marriages and forcefully converted to Islam --both Christians and minority Muslims charged with blasphemy accusations. I talked about visiting targeted villages in Nigeria whose pastors had literally been beheaded."

I know @Sean_ADFIntl and have seen his commitment to religious freedom firsthand. His legal advocacy has helped protect countless individuals facing persecution around the globe. He has defended the innocent and helped save lives. Sean Nelson's record speaks for itself.

Nigerians have taken to the streets of Lagos and Abuja to protest the government’s failure to tackle insecurity amid a wave of kidnappings and incessant killings. Placards read, “No Democracy Without Security”, “End Insecurity and Kidnapping” and “Free All Abducted Children”.👇🏾

Today is Dr. Gulshan Abbas’s 8th birthday in detention on unfounded charges.  The CCP must stop its acts of transnational repression and attempts to silence U.S. citizens through coercion and intimidation and release Dr. Abbas so she can reunite with her family.

Friends, Christian persecution is happening every day, all around the world, and it is largely flying under the radar.  In the newest episode of Bishop Barron Presents, I sit down with @RepRileyMoore (WV-2) to discuss what he witnessed firsthand during his recent trip to Nigeria, his efforts to lead our nation’s response to this crisis, and how his Catholic faith keeps him grounded. Watch our full conversation here: youtu.be/pMdKX2c9p4M

I am thankful to see that Nigeria’s House of Representatives passed this important policy that I’ve been calling for since @POTUS first asked me to investigate the genocide against Christians in Nigeria. In fact, I raised this idea directly with Nigeria’s First Lady during her visit to Washington and have done so repeatedly with every Nigerian delegation I’ve met with. Ensuring states can protect their own citizens is a critical step toward ending the persecution of Christians and the overall instability in the Nigeria. President Tinubu deserves credit for supporting this legislation and urging its passage through Nigeria’s parliament, and I hope to see him continue pushing on this issue. There’s still a ways to go before state level police forces will be in place, but this is a sign that all our hard work is paying off.

The whole thing is really a great message 👇 *** Today, Melania and I join in prayer with Catholic Bishops gathered in Orlando, Florida, as they consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the occasion of our 250th year of American Independence—a powerful moment in our national story and a poignant reminder that America has always been guided by the loving hand of God. Even in the centuries before the United States was conceived in nationhood, America was a land of prayer, a place of miracles, and home to some of the most faithful and devoted Christians to ever live.  From the heroic bands of Christian missionaries, settlers, and explorers who tamed the unknown to spread the Gospel to the priests, chaplains, and churchgoers who forged our spirit in every generation since, the love of Jesus Christ has stood at the center of our identity and way of life. Inspired by this proud birthright of faith, just years after the end of the Revolutionary War, Bishop John Carroll—the first Catholic bishop in the United States and cousin of Catholic Founding Father Charles Carroll—consecrated our young Republic to Mary, the Mother of God.  Today, this grand legacy of faith in America reaches yet another historic milestone as America’s Catholic Bishops consecrate our Nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, during which they will prayerfully “celebrate the abundant gifts” that God has “given this nation, founded on the self-evident truths that our Creator has endowed all people with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  And following today’s consecration, on June 12, Christians in the United States and around the world will celebrate the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, a joyful celebration of God’s boundless love for all His creation. This year’s Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus also fittingly marks the anniversary of one of the most momentous days in Western civilization’s long twilight struggle against atheistic communism.  On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered his historic address at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, in which he famously implored Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” Toward the end of his remarks, President Reagan identified what he called “the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West:  The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.” President Reagan recounted the construction by the communist East German government of a mighty television tower in the 1960s.  “Virtually ever since,” Reagan said, “the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower’s one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind.  Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the cross.  There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.” On that very day, just over 200 miles away, Pope Saint John Paul II, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, was speaking in his native Poland.  On the Westerplatte peninsula, the place where, in an extraordinary display of heroic virtue, an isolated force of around 200 Polish warriors held out for 7 days against approximately 4,000 German troops attacking from sea, land, and air in the opening days of World War II, the Pope challenged a gathering of Polish youth:  “Each of you, young friends, also finds your own ‘Westerplatte’ in life.  A set of tasks that must be undertaken and fulfilled.  A just cause that you cannot simply fail to fight for.  A duty, an obligation, from which you cannot shirk.  You cannot ‘desert.’  Finally—a certain order of truths and values that must be ‘upheld’ and ‘defended,’ just as at Westerplatte, within oneself and around oneself.  Yes, defended—for oneself and for others.” Pope Saint John Paul II closed by quoting the words of a Polish martyr.  “More horrifying than a defeat of arms is the defeat of the human spirit.” Thanks to the moral leadership of President Reagan and Pope Saint John Paul II, the tireless work and determination of free men and women around the world, and the moral witness of millions who endured prolonged suffering within the Captive Nations, the godless forces of Soviet communism were vanquished—and the human spirit triumphed. Today, nearly four decades later, our Nation and our culture confront a new set of menacing ideologies seeking once again to cast God out from our society.  But today, as Catholic Bishops consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in this 250th year of our Independence, we recommit ourselves, like President Reagan and Pope Saint John Paul II, to defending our spiritual identity and great civilizational inheritance.  Above all, we pray that America will continue for the next 250 years, and beyond, to be a land of faith, a country of miracles, and a light and glory to all nations.

🚨 STATEMENT: During his FIFA Countdown Concert performance in L.A, @davido wore a custom jacket bearing the names of the 39 abducted schoolchildren and 7 teachers from Oriire LGA, Oyo State. 🇳🇬 A powerful reminder that their story must not be forgotten. 🙏🏾❤️ #BringThemHome

This is really awesome by @davido 👏

For the first time, UN experts have admitted that there are “credible reports of killings, abductions, sexual violence, forced conversion, forced marriage, abductions and acts tantamount to enforced disappearances targeting Christian and other religious minority communities in Nigeria, particularly women and girls.” cruxnow.com/church-in-africa…

Christians in Nigeria are still facing crisis levels of violence and persecution. This week, UN experts have urged the Nigerian government to take action to put an end to attacks that have continued to disproportionately target Christians, and particularly women and girls. 👇More from @EWTNews