WARNING: Attacks on Nigerian Christians Expected on Christmas, Source Says

Multiple attacks are being planned against Christians in Nigeria on Christmas Day, a major publication in the country warns.  

“So help me God, if intervention doesn’t happen within the next two weeks, we are going to see a massacre of Christians on Christmas,” Judd Saul, founder of Truth Nigeria, said at an event hosted by the Washington Policy Institute in D.C. on Thursday.  

Truth Nigeria, a project of Equipping the Persecuted, is a news outlet employing Nigerian journalists with the aim of telling true stories of corruption and violence in the African nation.  

About a year and a half ago, Truth Nigeria began issuing terror alerts as locals started informing the news outlet of planned attacks.  

“We have gained intelligence from within communities of when attacks were going to occur and where, [and] in every instance, we get a terror alert, we notify the Nigerian police, we notify the Nigerian military, we notify local government officials,” Saul said.  

“Out of all the terror alerts we’ve issued, we’ve had 89% accuracy in all of our terror alerts, and the Nigerian government, police, and military did nothing to intervene,” he added.  

The attacks are reportedly expected in the Plateau and Kaduna states of Nigeria.  

The Nigerian government did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.  

Christians have faced persecution in Nigeria for more than two decades, but violence against followers of Jesus grew far worse with the rise of Boko Haram in 2009, according to Global Christian Relief. In recent years, Fulani militants, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, also began carrying out acts of violence against Christian communities in Nigeria.   

It is estimated that more than 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009, about 7,000 in the first half 2025 alone, according to Concerned Women for America. 

At the end of October, President Donald Trump announced that he was designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern in response to the violent persecution against Christians.  

Asked about the role of Nigeria government should play to ensure there are no attacks against Nigerians on Christmas Day, a White House official told The Daily Signal: 

President Trump made his position clear. Nigeria is facing a complex array of threats from terrorist groups and violent extremist organizations that is affecting wide portions of the country. We hope that the Nigerian government will work to take swift and immediate action in collaboration with the United States to address the violence that is affecting Christians, as well as countless other innocent civilians across Nigeria.

Nigeria ranks among the top 10 nations in the world for Christian persecution, and according to Saul, 90% of Christian persecution deaths in the past five years have taken place in Nigeria.  

In June, Fulani jihadists attacked Christians in Yelwata, Nigeria, setting homes on fire and shooting at will, according to Genocide Watch. Over 200 people were killed in the attack.  

“We had intelligence 30 days before this attack,” Saul said. “We notified the Nigerian government. They did nothing.”  

With so much attention on the issue of Nigeria after Trump began speaking out on the issue and added Nigeria back to the list of nations of Particular Concern, Saul says what is needed now is “real action, action with teeth.”  

“I do believe the gospel of Jesus Christ will help Nigeria and stop the conflict, but I also believe that we have resources, we have brains, we have legs, we have arms, and we can intercede on behalf of our persecuted brothers and sisters with courage, with action, and stand in the gap,” he said.  

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