American Missionaries Call Attention to Genocide of Nigerian Christians
By Ebere Inyama
Two American missionaries giving aid to displaced victims of ethnic cleansing raids are stirring the debate over Christian genocide – and winning, TruthNigeria has learned. Both Judd Saul of Iowa and Mike Arnold of Texas are film makers as well as sponsors of housing for displaced Nigerian Christians.
“The primary driving force of the killing of Christians in Nigeria is the Fulani tribe”, said Judd Saul on Tim Pool’s podcast. Saul is the founder of Equipping the Persecuted, an aid-giving nonprofit as well as TruthNigeria.com.
“They have declared that Allah has given Nigeria to them and that they can do with Nigeria whatever they want and once they have the political cover in these northern states, they start going after more land and more villages and start doing the killings”, Saul continued.
“They practice the Saudi Arabia Sunni form of Islam. That is the same ideology of Boko Haram and ISIS.”
“They’ve just been running unimpeded for the last 20 years. I call it death by a thousand attacks,” Saul added.
“It’s not like a giant army going in and taking over major cities but systematically over time, they move in, they grow their population in a new area, they gain political power, and once they have the political power, the killing starts”, he added.
A former Mayor of Blanco City, Texas, United States of America, Mike Arnold, has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of complicity in the killing of Christians living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps across the country.
Speaking during an interview with Punch on 18 October, 2025, Arnold said the Nigerian government is actively engaged in the act of “witness repression” aimed at suppressing the truth about the ongoing genocide against Christians in the country. Arnold popped into media attention by sparring with former government spokesman Reno Omokri at a filmed panel on Oct 14 intended to refute the claim of Christian genocide, but Arnold forthrightly contradicted Omokri’s claims.
According to a Grok analysis, Arnold scored a hit: the X account of #StopChristianGenocideinNigeria surged to 20k+, flipping an 80 % denialist narrative (farmer-herder false narrative “to 70 % affirming systematic targeting.”
“There are at least four to 10 million IDPs who are eyewitnesses to genocide, and the government lies to them and labels them criminals”, Arnold said.
“They are being killed; they are dying of preventable illnesses and malnutrition. They are being abducted; they live in absolute squalor, denied by the government intentionally and in many ways”, he added.
Arnold said he was invited to Nigeria by former presidential aide Omokri; to hold a world press conference Oct. 14 wherein he would address the reports of Christian genocide in Nigeria based on his research findings.
He said he had been investigating the killings since 2019, adding that his team went undercover to numerous IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps.
Christians Attacked from Two Fronts
While the Internally Displaced Persons in some locations are “being taken down by the government”, according to Arnold, the Fulani ethnic militia are busy killing more Christians in the rural communities.
“The established protocol for these people is that when they attack people — maybe a bus — and pull people out, they separate Christian and Muslim men and women first”, Arnold said.
“They kill the Christian men and tell the Muslim men that they must either join them or die, and they kill all the ones who don’t join them and sell the women into sex slavery”, he added.
In a statement presented to journalists, international observers, and human rights organizations in Abuja on 16 October, 2025, Arnold said that “while global attention often focuses on Boko Haram and ISWAP, the majority of killings and displacements across the Middle Belt region of Nigeria are, in fact, carried out by radical Islamist Fulani militias’.
“Numerous field reports, satellite imagery, survival testimonies confirm that these militant groups, often operating under political protection and mislabeled as herders, are responsible for the most widespread systematic and sustained attacks on Christian farming communities”, he said.
“Their campaigns extend well beyond traditional grazing disputes, encompassing organized massacres, forced displacement, and the strategic occupation of conquered lands,” he added.
Attacks Spreading to the South
Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM) are often called “bandits” by mainstream Nigerian media. Reporters are coached by government spokesmen to avoid mentioning Fulani ethnicity. TruthNigeria reportage has documented that FEM are rapidly expanding their reach from Nigeria’s Northwest into Nigeria’s southwestern states, planting forest strongholds, abducting civilians, and issuing chilling claims of territorial ownership.
In the Southeast, moves made by the Fulani militia to secure portions of land for cattle ranches have been met with stiff opposition by the indigenous people, but not before 5,000 plots of land was handed over to them by the Abia state government.
Speaking during an interview with TruthNigeria, a community leader in Imo state, Chief Ezuma Oji, raised issues over the plan by the Federal Government to acquire land in Imo State and other parts of the South-East region to build cattle ranches.
“Ranching should strictly be a private enterprise and should be structured and managed privately”, Oji began during an interview with TruthNigeria.
“Why is the Federal government involving itself in ranching?” he asked.
“Besides, it would be difficult for the people of the southeast region to welcome cattle ranching, going by what they experienced in the hands of Fulani herdsmen in the last 10 years”, he added.
“Communities in the Southeast are still licking the wounds of mayhem, rape, maiming, killings, kidnapping and even robbery attacks they suffered at the hands of criminal Fulani herdsmen.
“The governors in the five states of the Southeast should wake up to the challenges and nip the proposal in the bud”, he added.
In the same vein, a security expert working with the Nigerian legion, Mr. Okechukwu Ugorji, told TruthNigeria
during an interview that a vast portion of land given to the Fulani militia by the Abia state government in 2001 for cattle ranching was later turned into a hideout for kidnappers and armed robbers, prompting the present governor of the state, Mr. Alex Otti, to demolish the structures there in October 2023
Ebere Inyama reports on conflict for TruthNigeria.
