{"id":370626,"date":"2025-12-26T05:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:21:11","slug":"breaking-in-effort-to-stem-violence-against-christians-u-s-conducts-airstrikes-on-isis-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370626\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: In effort to stem violence against Christians, U.S. conducts airstrikes on ISIS in Nigeria\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By CNA Staff<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

CNA Staff, Dec 25, 2025 \/
\n 22:08 pm<\/p>\n

With the support of the Nigerian government, U.S. President Donald Trump announced<\/a> that the U.S. military has carried out strikes against elements of ISIS in Nigeria that \u201chave been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have previously warned these terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,\u201d said President Trump of the Dec. 25 action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nigeria\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed<\/a> that \u201cprecision hits on terrorist targets\u201d in the country\u2019s northwestern Sokoto state were carried out in cooperation with the United States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said<\/a> he was \u201cgrateful for Nigerian government support and cooperation\u201d in the counter-terrorism effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Upon announcing the action, President Trump emphasized that \u201cunder my leadership, our country will not allow radical Islamic terrorism to prosper\u201d and that further strikes will be carried out if the \u201cslaughter of Christians\u201d continues in Africa\u2019s most populous country.<\/p>\n

Applauding the action, Congressman Riley Moore, R-West Virginia, a Catholic who has championed<\/a> the cause of persecuted Nigerian Christians in the U.S. House of Representatives, said that \u201ctonight’s strike in coordination with the Nigerian government is just the first step to ending the slaughter of Christians and the security crisis affecting all Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n


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The Catholic News Agency (CNA) Staff is a team of journalists dedicated to reporting news concerning the Catholic Church around the world. Our bureaus are located in Washington, D.C., and Rome. We have sister language agencies in Kenya, Germany, Peru, Brazil, and Italy. CNA is a service of EWTN News. You can contact us at editors@catholicna.com with questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CNA Staff CNA Staff, Dec 25, 2025 \/ 22:08 pm With the support of the Nigerian government,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,181732,43265,181733,451,3,942,181731,452,453,25],"class_list":["post-370626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-catholic-church-in-nigeria","tag-catholic-news","tag-congressman-riley-moore","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-religious-persecution","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}