Once upon a time, Africa was always on the front pages of European newspapers.
Today, Africa has vanished. Erased by Gaza’s Ministry of Truth.
A new report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, reveals that 7,087 Christians were massacred in Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025, with an average of 32 Christians killed per day. By year’s end, they will number more than ten thousand.
Let’s repeat it: 32 Christians killed every day because they are Christians.
Another 7,899 have been kidnapped. Of these, 600 were Catholic priests and Protestant pastors. The killings are carried out by 22 jihadist groups that have made the West African nation their home.
The report states that they aim to “eliminate 112 million Christians.”
It also says that “the goal is to eradicate Christianity from Nigeria within the next 50 years.”
Since 2009, 125,009 Christians have been killed.
Furthermore, 19,100 churches have been destroyed and over 1,100 Christian communities have been wiped out.
In 2024 the figure was 12 Christians killed per day. Now, since no one reacted, it’s 32.
These 32 Christians killed every day do not concern the likes of Don Nandino Capovilla, the Italian priest turned away at Tel Aviv airport: keffiyeh around his neck, propaganda flyers in hand, and a merciful laugh in front of a map where Israel does not exist.
With such Marcionite priests, who don’t even know that Jesus comes from the Hebrew Yeshua and Mary from Maryam, the European Caliphate will be child’s play.
Let’s hope this Don Nandino took the wrong plane and ended up in Tel Aviv, a great, free, and beautiful city in Israel (the only country in the Middle East where Christians are increasing and live in complete safety), instead of flying to Lagos, Nigeria, full of Islamic terrorist organizations that hate Christians almost as much as Hamas hates Jews - and want to exterminate them all.
Of course, the 32 Christians per day are of no interest to the European mainstream press, too preoccupied with Jumilla.
Don’t you know Jumilla?
It’s a Spanish town where, for months, the main pavilion of the city hosted weekly Islamic functions that drew hundreds of people, spilling worshippers into the surrounding streets. So the right-wing mayor decided on an absolute ban on such gatherings in municipal sports facilities. The reaction was immediate, with socialist government ministers crying “racism,” as if the Inquisition had just returned to fashion.
Meanwhile, the fight against Israel remains the international left’s sole obsession.
The notorious lunatic Greta Thunberg is ready to set sail again. Her new flotilla for Gaza will depart from Spain, and on September 4 other ships from Tunisia and other ports will join. On board will also be American actress Susan Sarandon, Swedish actor Gustaf Skarsgård, Irish actor Liam Cunningham and Marlene Engelhorn, heiress to Zyklon B profits.
No one has ever heard of Western flotillas headed to Nigeria, Congo, or Syria, where Christians are slaughtered like chickens. These conflicts are simply not glamorous enough. 32 Christians killed every day is not à la page.
When it comes to Israel and the Jews, they are always ready to pounce like flies on a pile of manure, completely indifferent to the brutal cruelty of terrorists against the Jewish people and against their own people, used as human shields.
They know they will be intercepted and turned back this time as well, but they don’t care because they are certain of applause from the Western mainstream press.
We Europeans have been taught a dangerous fiction: that all cultures are equal and all values are compatible. This is cultural relativism: the belief that no worldview is better or worse, only different.
This is the cost of postmodern moral relativism. After nearly 80 years of peace, Europeans have forgotten what war looks like. They cannot imagine being executed for their faith or ideas. In Syria and Nigeria, as on the Gaza border, this is not hypothetical. It is happening now. To Jews, Druze and Christians.
Europe is at a crossroads. And as Michel Onfray writes in the Journal du dimanche, “The West is under the threat of a jihadist atomic bomb”:
And the West could even lose the war before a single shot is fired. Muammar Gaddafi warned us:
“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe without swords, without weapons, without conquest. We will turn it into a Muslim continent in a few decades.”
Muslims no longer call Europe “dar al-harb”, the house of war. The lands already conquered, by good means or bad, they call “dar al-Islam”: the house of Islam and peace.
And anyone who has brains, ears, and an instinct for survival—take heed.
Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian.