Pope Leo apparently believes that Muslims are murdering Christians in Nigeria “for economic reasons.” Nigeria’s bishops beg to differ. More on the Pope’s refusal to recognize the violent ideology of Islam as the cause of those murders can be found here: “Pope Leo, slashing the throats of Jews and Christians is not due to the economy,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, November 26, 2025:
Manga is a Christian in Nigeria, the most dangerous place in the world for Christians, the country where a Christian is killed every two hours. Manga was supposed to be one of them. He was returning home as usual after university. His mother was preparing dinner. Terrorists burst into his house. They dragged Manga, his father, and his brother outside, while his mother and younger siblings hid in a room.
“Then they asked my father and the two of us if we were ready to renounce Jesus and embrace Islam,” Manga testified to the NGO “Open Doors.” Manga’s father refused. “So they told us: ‘We will kill you.’ I answered: ‘If you kill us, what do you gain?’” Manga was struck with a rifle butt, and his father was brutally murdered. “They beheaded him and placed his head on his stomach in front of my eyes,” says Manga. “Then they tried to decapitate my brother.” Manga watched helplessly as his family was massacred. Then came his turn. “They took a knife, serrated by their teeth, and tried to cut my neck.” Manga managed to find the strength to pray. The young man was left on the ground, with the bodies of his father and brother before his eyes.
I don’t know what to call all this: “genocide,” “extermination,” “religious cleansing,” but Manga certainly did not suffer because of “the economy.”
“I think that in Nigeria, in certain areas, there is danger for Christians, but [also] for everyone-Christians and Muslims have been massacred,” Pope Leo said recently, responding to a question about Manga’s country.
How many Christians have been massacring Muslims in Nigeria? It’s not impossible that there may have been some, but I have yet to see any reports of this. The pope would like us to believe that all parties are equally guilty in Nigeria; he doesn’t want Muslims singled out.
“There is a terrorism issue,” Leo said. “It is an issue that has much to do with the economy, if you will, with control over the lands they own. Unfortunately, many Christians have died, and I think it is very important for the government, together with all peoples, to promote genuine religious freedom.”…
Has the government not been “promoting genuine religious freedom”? Of course it has. It is the Muslim fanatics of Boko Haram who have been determined to end the “religious freedom” of the Christians, by burning down their churches, killing their priests, and murdering Christian believers who refuse to convert to Islam.
As for Pope Leo’s claiming that “terrorism…is an issue that has much to do with the economy,” it is one more false claim that distracts us from the real cause of Muslim terrorism, which is the texts and teachings of Islam. It’s these texts that instruct Muslims that when they “meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks” (Qur’an 47:4), a message found in a dozen other Qur’anic passages. It is the Qur’an that tells Muslims that they are the “best of peoples” (3:110) and non-Muslims the “most vile of created beings” (98:6). It is in his Hadith that Muhammad announces “I have been made victorious through terror “and “war is deception.”
The author of this piece, Giulio Meotti, continues:
The same line was adopted by the late Pope Francis, who always avoided or bypassed the issue of the mass murder of Christians. On 14 February 2025, Muslim terrorists kidnapped 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, brought them into a church, tied them up, and beheaded them. Their bodies were left to rot by the Muslim killers, who did this to demonstrate the supremacy of Islam over Christianity.
Pope Francis made no reference to this massacre of Christians in a Nigerian church; instead, in a meeting with the Slovak Prime Minister, he spoke of the “grave humanitarian emergency in Gaza.” Pope Francis accused Israel of genocide but said: “Let me say clearly that I do not like it when people speak of a ‘genocide of Christians’”.
Why didn’t Pope Francis like people speaking of a “genocide of Christians”? Because it would blacken the name of Muslims, make them feel uneasy about their position in western societies, cause them justifiably to resent their Christian neighbors who might believe such charges — no, for Pope Francis, who wanted above all else to promote an entirely fictional interfaith harmony, such a remark would never do.
Pope Francis didn’t want wonderful Islam to receive the blame, even though the killers of Christians in Nigeria have all been Muslims, determined to show their supremacy, and to terrorize Christians who remained alive to convert to Islam, or die. Pope Francis was the naif who claimed that Islam “is a religion of peace.” He was determined to believe this even though Muslims constantly showed that they disagreed.
The Nigerian clerics, both Catholic and Protestant, know why their flocks are being butchered. It has nothing to do with “economic inequality,” as Pope Leo wants us to believe. It has always been, they asserted, a matter of Muslims conducting an “Islamic Jihad.”
When marauding Muslims burn down churches, kidnap Christian girls, murder priests and ministers, and kill many thousands of Christians year in and year out, the Christians in Nigeria deserve to have their faith leaders, headed by Pope Leo, put the blame where it belongs — on the ideology of Islam, and those who fanatically believe in it. But the pope is either misinformed, or chooses to believe like his predecessor that “Islam is a religion of peace” in order to keep up with this “interfaith harmony” deception that is used by Muslims to keep Christians thinking that, in the end, “people are the same the whole world over” and “everyone wants the same thing — peace.” No, they don’t. Read the Qur’an. Read the Hadith.
somehistory says
This part is as untrue as what the pope *believes.* “justifiably to resent their Christian neighbors ”
Since it’s the islime causing the muzzies to murder Christians, there is no *justification* in *resentment* toward those they are murdering.
The muzzies are engaging in a daily slaughter of Christians. For someone to notice this and point it out to others, does not then “justify” more hatred from the muzzies toward their victims.
and this lying pretender is just as evil as was his mentor. He faces the same Day of Judgment. He faces the Day when he will *reap as he is sowing.*
jon sobieski says
He is John Paul the second. He will be kissing a koran anyday now.
somehistory says
He’ll be reading it at the vatican for those *special* days when he walks onto the balcony.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, they doubled down with Leo. He came out of the gate with pagan rituals and immediately began blessing muslims and condemning Christians. I don’t know what it will take to make Catholics rise up against this.
somehistory says
It seems Catholic who notice, leave instead of rising up.
William David Pappas says
How ironic it is that he can make these pronouncements safely behind the walls of the Vatican that were built specifically to keep the Muslims from coming in and killing everybody..
gravenimage says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Is there something in the Chicago education system that produces geniuses like this Pope?
Spiro says
Yes
Kuffar says
This A Hole is an anti-pope just like the last one. What an Effing moron.
Michael says
Incredible to me coming from a family where my mother’s side is entirely Catholic to see that the Vatican has become yet another arm of the globalist agenda to take down western civilization and make serfs of us all. Tragic and disgraceful on an epic scale.
Wellington says
Two fools in a row as pontifex maximus. Not good.
Tim gallagher says
What an outrageous and cowardly lie. This guy seems almost like a clone of the last pope in terms of lying to protect evil islam from being called out what it is, a hate filled, murderous evil load of degenerate filth. So I guess this pope thinks that the millions of non Muslim murdered by Muslims over 1400 years were also murdered for economic. All the pope has to do is read the Koran with all the calls to kill the non believers.bgod would want religious leaders to call out Islam as the evil thing that it is. God will not be pleased with this guys bullshit. Islam has to be called what it is, satanically evil.
James Lincoln says
Tim gallagher says,
“This guy seems almost like a clone of the last pope in terms of lying to protect evil islam from being called out what it is, a hate filled, murderous evil load of degenerate filth.”
He may be even worse than Pope Francis.
And he looks like a pretty “robust” 70-year-old who could be around for a very long time…
Tim gallagher says
As I said, James, I do believe that God would not be pleased with any church leader who, through either ignorance or lack of courage, refuses to point out how evil and barbaric islam is. It is pathetic. God would surely expect Christian religious leaders to face the truth about evil islam. As you say he could be around for 20 years. Of course, although I am a catholic, on Islam he is an idiot and means nothing to me. I would listen to Robert Spencer and other truth tellers not this idiot of.a pope.
Walter Sieruk says
Lets’ face it, Pope Leo XIV is no better than Pope Francis was, with his appeasement and “caving in” to the pressure of the power of Islam.
First, Pope Leo’s having a prayer room and carpet installed inside the Vatican Library.
Even more recently his attempting to blame “economic reasons” for the Muslims sever and vicious murderous persecution of the Christians of Nigeria.
Pope Leo XIV just isn’t honest enough to come right out a speak the truth, which is those Muslims who are murdering those Christians is not because of economic factors but because the Qur an instructs devout Muslim to engage in the violence of killing, what it terms “disbelievers,” As found in, for example, Surah 2:191. 4::89. 9:5,123. 47:4.
Sig says
Why don’t you try to ask for a Christian prayer space I. Mecca in return you fool!
At least negotiate and don’t just surrender like a Hamas sec slave that he is.
GE says
I used to think Pope Leo was as bad as Pope Francis.
I’ve changed my mind.
He’s worse.
gravenimage says
Pope Leo: Christians Are Being Killed In Nigeria for ‘Economic Reasons’
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What crap–Christians are not wealthier or more apt to own land than are Muslims in Nigeria. And while this *might* explain robbery to an extent, how does it explain forced conversions to Islam, kidnapping, rape, and mass murders? And under the Land Use Act, the states hold ultimate ownership of all land in Nigeria–and the government is now Muslim.
Sig says
He just opened Muslims a prayer room inside the Vatican. Isn’t that literally opening the gates to the barbarians?
Guess what. You’re not getting one in Mecca for Christians. The poope is afraid of Muslims and must sing to their tune. So he ignores the genocide in Nigeria , and sides with Hamas in Palestine.
What is the purpose of the church any more if not to stand up for Christians in trouble? They’re all Marxists/islamsits like the last two poopes.
You know, many people are leaving for traditional Catholic Churches, separatists. Leftists have hijacked all the Catholic Churches here.
The poope is an Islamic terrorist conman.
gravenimage says
+1
Jim says
The Popes have been hell-bent on seeing only good in the cult of the paedo warlord ever since 1964. They are deaf to the facts about Mudslime atrocities, because they want to be. Prevost is slightly better than Bergoglio in some ways, but in most ways he is indistinguishable from him. The worst of all this is, that those in govt in Church or State suck up to the Moslems, and it is those they govern – never the governors – who pay the price.
jerry glenn says
The Vatican surges in the European Islamopandering derby.
KK says
It wouldn’t surprise me if this man ushers in Chrislam. He is an atypical prostitusional politician who will say anything to appease his master, the supreme muhammadist to show he is addressing the issue at hand. What a horrible example of Christendom this man portrays. This is what should be expected from weak willed non confrontation people like the dope in charge.
Northern Virginiastan says
It’s a sad day when Nicki Minaj speaks up for the plight of Nigerian Christians more forcefully than the Pope.
gravenimage says
+1
KufarDawg says
False prophets indeed.
Larry says
And now he wants to give Israel to the Muslims by dividing up Israel so the Palestines can have part of the land. Doesn’t he know that land is where our Lord is to return?