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I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria, and I’m stunned. He helped bury 14 Christians in a mass grave—two infants and a 4-year-old. Attacks keep coming so fast they can barely keep up. Brad says 72% of Christians killed worldwide last year were in this region of Nigeria, and hardly anyone is talking about it. The media isn’t covering this, yet our brothers and sisters are being slaughtered and churches forced underground. Please share and pray. We are the media.
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I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned. Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave. Two were infants. One was a 4-year-old child. And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore. What shocked me even more is this: Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria. 72%. And hardly anybody is talking about it. The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground. Guys… this matters. Please watch this interview. Please pray for these families. And PLEASE share this everywhere you can. At this point, WE are the media. WE are how people find out. WE are the distribution network. If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention. Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.
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Brad and a companion discuss the ongoing violence in Northern Nigeria and the ministry’s work to aid persecuted Christians and spread the gospel.
Key events and humanitarian work:
- A mass grave was used to bury 14 people from a widow community attacked this morning: 11 adults, 2 infants, and a 4-year-old. Attacks on their communities occur frequently, with near-daily violence nearby.
- The ministry’s primary focus is helping persecuted Christians, including a refugee facility and a ministry to widows and orphans. They conduct extraction missions to remove people from dangerous Muslim-to-Christian conversion situations under Sharia law, where apostasy can be punished by death.
- A documented case: a young pregnant girl was locked in a room by her husband after she was led to the Lord; after giving birth, the baby was taken, and she faced further threats before escaping and being brought to the refugee facility.
- They also carry out gospel outreach in Muslim communities, including a substantial Fulani Muslim school system to combat literacy deficits in Hausa and English that contribute to radicalization.
- Medical outreaches and well drilling are part of their community work. They try to plant seeds of faith and preach when doors open. Over ten years, they report more than 7,000 Muslims converting to Christ. They run a Bible institute training former Muslims as pastors and evangelists and operate underground churches.
Organizational and political context:
- They lead a dual-focused ministry: aid for persecuted Christians and broad gospel outreach in Muslim communities, including some who have persecuted them (e.g., Boko Haram members now in underground churches).
- Strategies include both humanitarian aid and spiritual outreach, with a recognized need for kinetic action against terrorist groups. They claim knowledge of terrorist locations and advocate for targeted military actions to dismantle Boko Haram and ISWA.
- Fulani Muslims are a large ethnic group; most are not radicalized, but a minority acts violently, sometimes under the influence of Boko Haram/ISWA. The government is described as Muslim-majority and allegedly not supportive of Christian interests, with the constitution cited as mentioning Sharia law 147 times and Christianity zero.
- They allege the Nigerian government has a financial motive to destabilize the North and to funnel funds from foreign terrorist networks; they also claim Nigerian authorities hired a Washington lobby firm (DCI) to persuade U.S. lawmakers to ignore the genocide, a claim supported by disclosure records.
Media and advocacy:
- They have a congressional coalition in Washington, D.C., and advisers in the White House. They say media coverage is minimal and that even under the Biden administration, Nigeria was removed from the country of particular concern list despite high Christian fatalities (they cite 8,000–8,200 killed in the past year within a 300-mile radius of their location, representing a large portion of global Christian fatalities that year).
- The speaker notes ongoing media engagement in outlets such as the Daily Wire, Washington Post, Washington Times, New York Post, and Wall Street Journal, and ongoing interviews to raise awareness.
- They express frustration at perceived neglect and urge support from the public, directing listeners to acrossnigeria.org to donate or learn more.
Closing:
- Brad and the interviewer acknowledge personal stakes, including missed family milestones, and emphasize the importance of supporting persecuted Christians through prayer, advocacy, and donations. The interview ends with thanks and acknowledgment of the challenging situation.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: You can see they're bringing the bodies out to be buried, in the mass grave that is, behind me.
Speaker 1: For those of you watching, I just saw one of Brad's post this morning about the burial, the mass grave that they dig, and they bury the Christians that have been slaughtered by the Muslims there. Can you, Brad, just kinda give us tell us what's going on there and and what you guys are doing and what's happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the immediate today, we were on our way to one attack that happened near one of our field offices. And while early this morning, and then while we were on our way there, we learned that one of our widow communities was attacked. So we diverted from our original location. And when we showed up to our widow community, there were fourteen, eleven adults, two infants, and one four year old that were slaughtered when we got there.
But we did we buried them today at a mass grave. But, you know, every it's like I can't keep up with the attacks here. Every time I turn around, either one of our communities is getting attacked or a neighboring community or somebody near us has been attacked. I mean, it's just all over the place. But our ministry primarily focuses on helping persecuted Christians, number one.
So we help in different ways. We have a refugee facility, and then we also have a ministry to widows, widows and orphans. Because whenever there's widows, there's orphans too. So we we focus on helping persecuted Christians. We'll do extraction missions.
So here in Northern Nigeria, if you're a Muslim and you convert to Christianity under Sharia law, that's a crime punish able by death. So your family can legally kill you if you come from a Muslim family or you're a Muslim and you become a Christian. So we go in and take people out of we do extraction missions where we take people out of those situations and bring them to our refugee facility. We have one we have one young girl in our refugee facility who she was pregnant, and one of our pastors led her to the Lord. Her husband found out about it, locked her in a room in their house, like a jail cell, until she had the babies.
Immediately when she gave birth, they took the baby. She's never held her baby, seen her baby, touched her baby. They were going to kill her after the baby was born. She escaped and we intervened and brought her to our refugee facility. So that's like one of a thousand stories.
This is the recent story I can tell you. Another part of our ministry is we also bring the gospel to Muslim communities. So we go into Muslim communities and we basically just look for ways to show them the love of Christ. And whether that's schools, we operate a pretty extensive Fulani Muslim school system. Most Fulani children can't read or write their own language, Hausa, and they can't read and write English, which is the national language here because it's a former British colony.
So it puts them at a huge disadvantage. So a lot of times they get drawn into radicalism because of the socioeconomic issues and no opportunities. So we go in and try to provide them opportunities. We've we've seen about through our we do medical outreaches. We drill drill wells in Muslim communities.
Really anything we can do. You know, the fruit of the spirit is called fruit because fruit is the reproductive organ of a plant. So we go into communities and bear the fruit of the spirit, plant seeds of faith in people, and look for opportunities that the holy spirit opens to preach the gospel. We've seen over 7,000 Muslims come to Christ in over ten years that we've been doing this. We we operate a Bible institute that trains former Muslims to become pastors and evangelists.
We operate underground churches here, but and, you know, so we we have this kinda dual focus of our ministry. One is helping persecuted Christians, and then the other is a pretty extensive gospel outreach to these communities. And a lot of times, it's the ones doing the persecuting. We we've led even Boko Haram soldiers to Christ, and now they're part of our underground churches. So yeah.
Speaker 1: What is it that or can can The United States like, does petitioning the government does is there anything practical that people can do from a higher level? Or is it like, listen. They know what's happening. They know what's going on. There's just no stopping it until you, what's the answer?
Speaker 2: They know everything. We have a coalition of congress members that I work with a lot in DC. I spend about half the year in Northern Nigeria, and then I go back and raise awareness. And part of that raising awareness is I work with our coalition of congressional members. We also have some advisers in the White House that we let them know what's going on.
They know what's going on. They know. You know, there there were airstrikes on Christmas Day in Sokoto in North Northwest Nigeria, and then they sent two US sent 200 troops here and then some counterterrorism drones. It's kind of it's gone back to the way it's actually gotten worse since the airstrikes because it it riled up all the radical Islamists here, the airstrikes did. So for a while, it looked like The United States was gonna intervene, and and we were very happy about that because ten years, Eric, this thing has been ignored, ignored completely by the media, by the government.
I mean, under the Biden administration, and and I'm not I'm not political. I try not to be political, but I have one issue, I tell people. I have one issue. My issue is Nigeria. That's my calling.
But under the Biden administration, he took Nigeria off the country of particular concern list. That year, there were eight thousand Christians that were killed here. Unbelievable. Yeah. So they there there's been I don't even know how to explain it.
I wish I knew the answer. Why is it being ignored? I don't know. But it's hard to get the media to pay attention to this. It's hard to get government to pay attention to this.
I've gone back and forth. Is it is it, you know, economy? Is it is it a is it an African thing? Is it a black thing? I mean, my mind's all over the place because I can't figure out why.
There were 8,200 Christians that were killed probably within a 300 mile radius of where I am right now. That's seventy two percent of all the Christians killed in the world last year were killed here.
Speaker 1: And nobody's talking about it.
Speaker 2: Nobody's talking about it? What and it's this isn't made up. I'm here. I'm seeing it. I buried 14 people today in a mass grave.
I've wracked my brain. I've gotten frustrated. I've gotten mad. I've gotten I mean, I'm beyond all of that because it's just it's it's insane. We try to raise awareness.
I do a lot of media interviews in The US, so there are some outlets that are picking it up. You know, I write for the Daily Wire, and I write for the Washington Post, Washington Times, New York, the New York Post, Wall Street Journal. I do a lot of pretty big op ed pieces and media interviews. FRC, I'm on with FRC. In fact, they're publishing an article of mine on Monday about president Trump has kinda gone back to ignoring this issue.
You know, it's the the next shiny object. And I'm not trying to be critical. I'm just saying, you know, it looked like he was focusing on it for a while, and then all of a sudden, it left a vacuum. And that just that just makes this problem worse. It's like, if you're gonna do something, do it.
Do it all the way. So
Speaker 1: Is there a strategy of the of taking the head off the snake of the extreme Muslim world? Is there a difference between the extreme Muslim world and the Muslim world? Is it easy to take somebody from Muslim to extreme Muslim? Can you address that real quick?
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it that's a great question. There are you know, there's let's let me focus real quick on the Fulani Muslims because they're the cause of a lot of the violence right now. They're a tribal group. They're an ethnic group of people.
The Fulani are not a terrorist group. I I'm I keep trying to say that because there's a lot of misinformation out there. There's over 17,000,000 Fulani in Northern Nigeria alone, and there's a small percentage that are causing a significant amount of the of the damage. In fact, the attack that happened to our widows this morning was a Fulani attack. But I would say most of them, the the vast majority of them are not radicalized, and they're peaceful.
So we we'll even go into those communities and and minister to them. But when you talk about Boko Haram or ISWA, which is the Islamic State of West Africa, that's an entirely different thing because those are ideological radical groups. So those aren't ethnic groups of people. Those are radical groups of people. We wrote a stabilization strategy for Northern Nigeria last year, and one of the things that we called for was kinetic action among the terrorist organizations in Northern Nigeria.
So we know we we have all the intelligence of where they are. I know where a lot of these camps are located. We have people who've been kidnapped by them and are still being held, and we know where they are. So if I know where they are, certainly, the CIA or the CIA or the State Department knows where they are. So go in and, you know, do some real damage across Northern Nigeria.
And I'm not a pacifist by any means. I think these terrorists need to be they need to be dealt with on the level that they're dealing and and take kinetic action and strategically strike them in key areas. But then that leaves the problem of the Fulani Muslims. Now they're not technologically advanced. There are tribal people who live out in the bush.
So they don't use Facebook. They don't use technology, these types of things. So I liken them. This is really probably a bad analogy, but they're they're very much like Native Americans in The US. So they're very tribal, very segregated people, very factionalized people.
So there's you're not gonna find an agreement among any of them. They have different tribes even among themselves, and they fight against each other. Well, in the the, you know, the the consequences of that is they also are fighting against Christians. What they're what they're trying to do and they're being radicalized and motivated a lot of times by groups like Boko Haram and ISWA. So Boko Haram and ISWA will recruit the Fulani Muslims to go do a lot of this stuff that they're doing.
They're being empowered by the government here because the government, as much as they like to make it seem like it's an inclusive government, it's a Muslim government. The constitution here mentions Sharia law and Islam a 147 times. Mention mentions Christianity zero. Wow. So they like to claim that it's this inclusive government for Christians and Muslims.
It's not. And and the government has an interest in keeping the North destabilized because they're using the North to funnel in a lot of money from other countries. Like, you know, just terrorist organizations like Boko Haram and ISWA will be funded by well, previously funded by Iran. I don't know. I haven't seen the latest since our conflict in Iran started.
But Libya and and other pro terrorist governments will funnel money here. You also have billionaires who are pro terrorists from the Middle East that funnel millions of dollars into Northern Nigeria. So they use it as a conduit. So to keep it destabilized is in their interest. And that's that's really what what is at the core of it.
I was in DC last December, and I was talking to one of our coalition members, congress member. And he said, you know, we had a visit from the Nigerians. And I I said, what do you mean? And and he said, yeah. They're trying to lobby us.
And I said, what are you talking about? Come to find out, he he said that the Nigerian government had hired DCI, which is a a Washington based lobby firm, to go around and lobby on behalf of the Nigerian government to cover up this genocide. Like, no. It's not going on. It's not going on.
So I went to the DOJ, and I pulled the disclosure documents. Every lobby firm, what has to disclose what they're doing. So I pulled the disclosure documents, and they they hired DCI. The Nigerian government hired DCI to the tune of $9,000,000 lobby congress to ignore this thing. So there's a consorted effort absolutely by the Nigerian government.
And I don't I you know, sometimes I think, are they paying the American media to stay quiet?
Speaker 1: To be quiet. No kidding.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's gotta be something. There's gotta be something.
Speaker 1: Well, I keep seeing it on X, and that's where I'm I'm grateful I'm seeing it on X, but that's what X people on X are saying is nobody's covering this. This makes no sense at all. This should be
Speaker 2: Makes no
Speaker 1: sense. International news right now.
Speaker 2: It should be bigger than Iran. Yeah. It should be bigger than any conflict we've had in the last ten years, particularly now, because it's at a fever pitch. I've never seen it this bad. I've been here for over ten years.
I've never seen it this bad.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just getting accustomed to your website here, across nigeria.org. Hey, guys. Please go check it out. You can sign up for their emails. You can get involved.
You can see the projects they're doing. Right at the top is a give now to support what they're doing. Tanya and I will be doing that. Tanya, I'm giving away some money. You can pray for them.
Guys, this is the real deal. This is this is the real deal. So Christians, let's let's help support the persecuted Christians around the world. I travel to college campuses. I speak to people on different things and a lot of different stuff and do a lot of traveling, but I'm like, I'm sitting here at home in my in my house today.
I'm not even on the road. You had to miss your son's your I just saw that on your Facebook. Missed your son's Yeah. Graduation from boot camp. And wow.
Thank you. I got to be
Speaker 2: there I got to be there virtually.
Speaker 1: Thank god for technology.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's right.
Speaker 1: But it's just not the same as being home sweet homes. Brad, thanks for your time today, and godspeed, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Appreciate it.