Equipping The Persecuted: Genocide in Nigeria
Jul 24 2025
WHEN:
Jul 24, 2025 at 10:00am
WHERE:
Zenger Room
CONTACT INFO:
Judd Saul
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News Conference
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“Equipping The Persecuted” to hold press conference, documentary premiere at National Press Club to expose Nigerian government complicity in killing of Christians
Washington, D.C. — On Thursday July 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. EST, Equipping The Persecuted will hold an in-person press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to present critical findings surrounding the Father’s Day Yelewata Massacre, where terrorists murdered over 270 Christians while Nigerian security forces stood by and failed to intervene.
The press conference will feature the exclusive screening of a short documentary produced by TruthNigeria journalists. It exposes the Nigerian government's foreknowledge of the attack and the military’s failure to respond, despite receiving clear advance warnings.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday July 24, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Location: National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045
Contact: Judd Saul, Executive Director, Equipping The Persecuted
Email: [email protected]
The Yelewata Massacre: A National and International Crisis
On June 13-14, 2025, local Nigerian journalists reported that over 200 Fulani ethnic militia attacked the Agrarian Christian community of Yelewata in Benue State, Nigeria. It’s considered one of the deadliest assaults in Nigeria’s ongoing wave of persecution against Christians. Victims were locked inside market stalls, doused with gasoline, and burned alive while soldiers stationed nearby failed to act.
Despite a Department of State Security (DSS) intelligence memo dated May 13, 2025—which warned of the planned attack—a nearby Nigerian military base with 30 soldiers provided no defense. Military forces arrived more than five hours after the attackers had fled.
Survivors, local journalists, and eyewitnesses now reveal that government officials fabricated a false narrative of a diversionary attack to conceal military negligence. Several Yelewata residents report that they were told to repeat this false story under threat of reprisal.
The Yelewata massacre is not an isolated incident—it is part of a systematic, ongoing campaign of religious cleansing in Nigeria.