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Washington and Rome see Nigeria’s crisis through different lenses — but each perspective highlights part of a deadly reality facing the nation’s Christians.
It should come as little surprise that Rome and Washington recently articulated very different approaches when it comes to addressing the murderous campaign of violence against Christians that’s ongoing in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.
According to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, the underlying issues are “social” in nature, not religious. According to President Donald Trump, the matter is primarily religious, and the Nigerian government is to blame for allowing the killings to continue.
But, actually, the Vatican and the U.S. government both make good points about the situation. In combination, their differing approaches could assist in improving conditions on the ground for Nigerian Christians as well as for the country as a whole.
Nigeria is indisputably the world leader when it comes to killings of Christians, with tens of thousands murdered there since 2000. Yet Cardinal Parolin pointedly declined last month to characterize the Nigerian violence as a genocide of Christians conducted by Muslim militants, noting an array of other factors are also involved.
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It should come as little surprise that Rome and Washington recently articulated very different approaches when it comes to addressing the murderous campaign of violence against Christians that’s ongoing in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.
According to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, the underlying issues are “social” in nature, not religious. According to President Donald Trump, the matter is primarily religious, and the Nigerian government is to blame for allowing the killings to continue.
But, actually, the Vatican and the U.S. government both make good points about the situation. In combination, their differing approaches could assist in improving conditions on the ground for Nigerian Christians as well as for the country as a whole.
Nigeria is indisputably the world leader when it comes to killings of Christians, with tens of thousands murdered there since 2000. Yet Cardinal Parolin pointedly declined last month to characterize the Nigerian violence as a genocide of Christians conducted by Muslim militants, noting an array of other factors are also involved.
Continued below.
Nigeria’s Christians Are Dying — and Both the US and the Vatican Are Right About Why
EDITORIAL: Washington and Rome see Nigeria’s crisis through different lenses — but each perspective highlights part of a deadly reality facing the nation’s Christians.
