{"id":14339,"date":"2025-12-30T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:20:30","slug":"u-s-strikes-islamic-state-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14339","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Strikes Islamic State in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As persecution against believers continues in Nigeria, President Trump announced a U.S. strike on forces of the Islamic State group in the nation on Christmas.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Who is praying on the wall?<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From CBN:\n<\/p>\n<p>In a Christmas evening post on his social media site Thursday, Trump did not provide details or mention the extent of the damage caused by the strikes in the northwestern state of Sokoto.\n<\/p>\n<p>A Defense Department official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss details not made public, said the U.S. worked with Nigeria to carry out the strikes and that they\u2019d been approved by Abuja.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the cooperation included exchange of intelligence and strategic coordination in ways \u201cconsistent with international law, mutual respect for sovereignty and shared commitments to regional and global security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to CBN, Nigeria is currently fighting multiple armed groups. The nation is dealing with a group known as the Islamic State West Africa Province in the northeast and the Lakurawa group in the northwest. Both groups are reportedly tied to ISIS.\n<\/p>\n<p>President Trump said that the strikes were launched against militants \u201cwho have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.\u201d This is part of a larger push against Christian persecution in the state, as the President reportedly ordered the Pentagon last month to plan for military action in Nigeria to address this oppression.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria notably worked with the U.S. to carry out the attack. The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also quick to condemn the persecution taking place within the nation\u2019s borders, stating \u201cTerrorist violence in any form, whether directed at Christians, Muslims or other communities, remains an affront to Nigeria\u2019s values and to international peace and security.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>As Christians continue to face terror and persecution in Nigeria, let\u2019s pray. Let\u2019s pray for the protection of all believers, and let\u2019s ask God to guide our military as it works to curb the influence and power of the Islamic State.\n<\/p>\n<h4>How are you praying about these strikes? Share your thoughts and prayers below.<\/h4>\n<p>(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes As persecution against believers continues in Nigeria, President Trump announced a U.S. strike on forces of the Islamic State group in the nation on Christmas. Who is praying on the wall? \u00a0 From CBN: In a Christmas evening post on his social media site Thursday, Trump did not provide details or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[727,774,557,171,2891],"class_list":["post-14339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayer","tag-islamic","tag-nigeria","tag-state","tag-strikes","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}