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The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has insisted that there is Christian genocide ongoing in Nigeria and demanded an end to it.
Speaking after an emergency executive meeting of the Fellowship at its national headquarters in Lagos, yesterday, PFN President, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, said the body would no longer remain silent while Christians are targeted, killed, raped and displaced across the country.
“There is Christian genocide going on in Nigeria. If we call it by any other name, it will bring Nigeria down. We are crying out to our international friends, beginning with America and Donald Trump. Whatever you can do to help our government put an end to it, come quickly and get it done.
“When on Christmas Day, Christmas Day was turned into a bloody day in Benue State, and hundreds were massacred. And we are to be conducting mass funerals when we are not in open conflict. What do you call that? And this is different from individual cases.
“Let us call a spade a spade. There is a Christian genocide ongoing in Nigeria. Even while we speak, killings are still taking place in Borno, Plateau and Benue states.
“When 501 Christians were massacred in Dogon Noma in Plateau, what do we call that? When Christmas Day turned into a bloody day in Benue with hundreds massacred, what name should we give it?”
“Like the case of Leah Sharibu. Where is Leah Sharibu? Like the case of Deborah, who was lynched and burned alive in Sokoto? What about that? And several of our girls were kidnapped and forced, given out as wives by force, without the consent of their parents and their Christian parents.
“And the Christian parents would not see them for years. And this has been going on. We have been talking, and we are not taking it seriously. And it has been going on again and again, until Donald Trump now spoke. And Donald Trump spoke the truth. There is Christian genocide going on in Nigeria.
“Like you would have picked in the news, even since this narrative began, killing was still going on in Borno, in Plateau, in Benue, up until yesterday (November 12, 2025). What are we saying? When 501 Christians were massacred in Dogonaya in Plateau State, what do we call that? And for no offence other than they are Christians.
Oke recalled that the Christian community had repeatedly called the attention of the Nigerian government to the alleged genocide with no decisive action from the authority.
The cleric backed President Trump’s intervention in ending alleged Christian genocide and persecution, adding that Trump only echoed what Nigerian Christians had been saying for years.
“I was part of the team that went to see the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari. We spoke very strongly about this, and the President listened to us, but he completely ignored the main issue we came for, If we came and spoke with such vehemence, with such passion, and then you pick the peripheral matter and left this matter alone, I knew that day that his government was complicit in what was going on,” he added.
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Oke alleged that killings across parts of Nigeria were systematic and targeted at Christians, lamenting that the killings had continued unchecked despite repeated appeals from the Church.
“The evidence is all over the place. There is nothing anybody can say that can whitewash it. It is evil, it is bloodshedding, it is mass murder and it is genocide. The time to stop it is now. That is what the church in Nigeria is saying with one voice.
“Christians in this nation must be free to practice their faith in any part of Nigeria as bona fide citizens of Nigeria.
“These armed bandits, Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, ISWAP, all of them using Islam as a cover. We have been living in peace with our Muslim brothers for a long time, until this violent Islamic sect came up with an intent to make sure they impose Sharia on all Nigerians.”
Bishop Oke called on President Bola Tinubu to decisively overhaul the nation’s security system and ensure justice for victims of religious violence. He questioned why those responsible for notorious attacks such as the killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto and the abduction of Leah Sharibu and the Chibok schoolgirls remain unpunished.
“The government should prove by action, not words, that it is not complicit. When hundreds are buried in mass graves and the whole world sees it, who can deny it? Why should we play politics with the blood of Nigerians?”
The PFN urged President Tinubu’s administration to rebuild trust by ensuring that the security architecture of the country is not infiltrated by those sympathetic to extremist ideologies.
He also condemned the government’s rehabilitation of so-called “repentant terrorists,” describing the move as a grave security
He assured Christians that the PFN would continue to speak out until the killings stop.
“We are not going to keep quiet. We will keep raising our voices until justice is done and every Nigerian, regardless of faith, can live in peace. The truth may be suppressed for a time, but it cannot be buried forever,” he said.
The meeting, which drew PFN leaders from across the country, reaffirmed the body’s commitment to national unity, peace, and the protection of fundamental human rights, while urging the media to “side with the oppressed” and report the truth without fear or bias.
