Catholic Bishop In Nigerian State Hit By US Missile Strikes Opposes Bombing | December 28, 2025
Catholic Bishop In Nigerian State Hit By US Missile Strikes Opposes Bombing | December 28, 2025
The top Catholic official in the Nigerian state that was targeted by US missiles on Christmas has come out against the US strikes, according to a report from OSV News .
“Violence cannot defeat violence,” said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the head of the Diocese of Sokoto in northwestern Nigeria. He added that Christianity has survived oppression through resilience, not force, saying, “Let us heed those solemn words of Jesus to Peter: Put your sword back in its place.”
Kukah has previously criticized the narrative from the Trump administration that a Christian “genocide” is taking place in Nigeria, while also urging an end to the violence. “The genocide stuff has been escalated by the Trump administration,” Kukah told The Crux earlier this month .
“This is what they used to muscle their way in, but I no longer want to be dragged into this. It is a distraction. My position is simple: By whatever name, stop the killings,” the bishop added.
During a speech at the Vatican in October, Kukah noted that he could travel and celebrate Mass freely in Sokoto, a predominantly Muslim state. “If we were dealing with outright persecution of Christians on grounds of identity, both myself and my small flock would not exist,” he said…
President Trump said in his announcement of the strikes, which he later called a “Christmas present,” that they targeted “ISIS Terrorist Scum” who have “been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!”
Back in October, Massad Boulos, President Trump’s envoy for Arab and African affairs, a Lebanese-born Christian who has lived in Nigeria, met with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and said that ISIS and Boko Haram kill more Muslims than Christians since they operate in predominantly Muslim areas. Last week, five Muslims were killed in a suicide attack in a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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