‘Only Islam Is the True Religion’: The Persecution of Christians, May 2025
by Raymond Ibrahim July 6, 2025
- “This is not a farmer-herder clash. It is a genocidal campaign. Our communities are being wiped out methodically. The international community must not remain silent.” — Dr. Joshua Riti, a local administrator, persecution.org, May 25, 2025 – Nigeria
- “Typically, kidnapped girls… some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic ‘marriages’ and are then pressured to record false statements in favor of the kidnappers, rights advocates say. Judges routinely ignore documentary evidence related to the children’s ages, handing them back to kidnappers as their ‘legal wives.'” — Morning Star News, May 28, 2025 – Pakistan
- Despite fierce opposition from Pakistan’s top Islamic authority and other Islamist groups, on May 29, President Asif Ali Zardari, signed into law a landmark bill banning child marriage, setting the minimum age for marriage for both genders at 18 years, but only in the Islamabad Capital Territory, not the entire country.
- “Somalia’s constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any other religion… It also requires that laws comply with sharia (Islamic law) principles, with no exceptions in application for non-Muslims. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence.” — Morning Star News, May 27, 2025
- That there are so many “accidental” fires of churches in Egypt suggests one of two things: either the extremists have…become more sophisticated… in their attacks on churches… or else Coptic Christians, for some inexplicable reason, have become the most careless, fire-prone people in the world: more Coptic churches than any other kind seem to keep “accidentally catching fire.”
- A Christian woman managed to record the savage destruction and arson the Muslims carried out. (She was ordered by State Security to remove the video, which she did; some copies, however, evaded censorship.) — Egypt
- This is hardly the first time in Berlin that Muslims target and attack people for being Christian. — Germany
- “Posters on the fences of the Christian and Alawite city of Tartus in Syria: Either you immediately change your religion from Christian to Muslim and convert to Islam, or you pay protection and tribute fees with your lives. Unknown individuals are distributing posters throughout the city, and at the end it is written: All religions are infidels, and only Islam is the true religion.” — X, May 20, 2025 — Syria
- “We live like refugees in our own country.” — Monsignor Najeeb, Assyrian International News Agency, May 29, 2025, — Iraq
On May 16, a judge in Lahore handed Jessica Iqbal, a 16-year-old Catholic girl, back to her 32-year-old Muslim abductor, despite clear signs that she was coerced into claiming she had converted to Islam and married him. Pictured: The Lahore High Court. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of May 2025.
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Nigeria: In the opening days of May, Muslim Fulani militants killed six Christians in Plateau State. “They hacked dead three Christians… and injured four others,” said a local, adding that their aim is “to drive away Christian victims of terror.” A pastor warned of “a grand design… to wipe out more than 200 Christian communities.” The same report notes that over 3,100 Nigerian Christians were murdered last year.
On May 7, Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria, “after killing 10 others in the same area the previous month.”
On May 12, the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, killed two Christian educational workers near an army base.
On May 14, Fulani militias killed eight more Christians and destroyed over 740 acres of farmland in Plateau State. Survivors described midnight attacks on sleeping families, with homes burned and crops trampled.
On May 24, Muslim herdsmen slaughtered 42 people in three Christian communities in Taraba state.
On that same day, Fulani terrorists shot and left a Catholic priest for dead before kidnapping his companions. Seriously wounded, he survived.
Although the Fulani are often presented as non-extremist herdsmen driven to seek new lands due to climate change, according to an International Freedom or Belief report,
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity.”
“This is not a farmer-herder clash. It is a genocidal campaign,” said Dr. Joshua Riti, a local administrator after the May 14 attack. “Our communities are being wiped out methodically. The international community must not remain silent.”
Mozambique: A May 12 report notes that Islamic extremists are intensifying their attacks against Christians, including beheadings, kidnappings, arson, and church burnings. More than 349 people were killed in 2024, a 36% rise from last year. “Many Christians are suffering,” a local priest said.
Indonesia: On May 19, five Muslim boys aged between 11 and 13 savagely beat and kicked an 8-year-old boy known for his Christian faith, church attendance, and biblical knowledge. He died soon after. Previously, they would bully the child, known only by the initials, “KB,” but on that day, the beating was so bad that he arrived home hunched over in pain. When his parents learned what happened, they went to school and met with the principal. When he called in the bullies for a meeting, they confessed. According to KB’s father,
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