This past Sunday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week for Christians around the world, a period that should be meaningful and joyous, but that was not the case in Nigeria, as dozens of Christians were reported to have been killed by gunmen, including in Gari Ya Waye community Angwan Rukuba, served by Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Jos. The targeting of Christians in Nigeria is not new or rare, prompting President Trump to threaten military action last November, unless their government did more to protect the community, but still the latest attacks were ignored Monday by the network newscasts.
The New York Times did report on the 12 deaths and multiple injuries in the mostly Christian city of Jos, while downplaying reports of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, which it’s more than ABC’s World News Tonight, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS News Hour and Special Report With Bret Baier could manage on Monday, which was not one word about the killings combined. After all it was a busy news night. ABC’s David Muir had to tell his viewers about the return of Celine Dion.
MUIR: Celine Dion announcing her comeback tonight.
DION CLIP: I’m getting the chance to see you, to perform for you, once again, in Paris.
MUIR: Looks amazing. Celine revealing a series of shows for September and October in Paris. Her first concert since being diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome in 2022. Tonight Celine is saying this return is quote the best birthday gift of her life.
Muir devoted 24 seconds to that breaking news. Over on NBC Tom Llamas gave 18 seconds to a kangaroo.
LLAMAS: And look at this. This is a heat sensing drone chasing after, that’s a kangaroo down there, on the loose in Wisconsin. Chesney, the 16-month-old kangaroo, escaped from a petting zoo and was on the lam for three days. Nobody knows where he was. He was eventually captured and returned to the zoo in good health.
None of this should come as a surprise. In mid-November last year, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the killing of Christians in Nigeria, and the major networks couldn’t be bothered to cover it on their nightly newscasts. Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier did cover the hearing.
In fact, from the moment Trump made his declaration threatening action against Nigeria many on the left, including of course the media, went on the attack against the President, for daring to care about innocent Christians being slaughtered for being Christians. The list includes MS NOW’s Reverend Al Sharpton and his guest, Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Massachusetts — the House Minority Whip. It also includes CNN’s Abby Phillip, who expressed her outrage over Trump’s focus on the mass killings of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim terrorists, and also ripped his “race-based” policy of granting asylum to white South Africans, who have also been victims of violence in their country.
A fair media, not one full of hatred for Christians, would look beyond their collective hatred of Trump and consider a report recently issued by the European Parliament which concluded, “Nigeria is currently the country most affected in the world by violence against Christians. Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 17,000 Christians were killed in targeted attacks because of their faith. In just the first seven months of 2025, more than 7,000 victims were reported, with around 7,800 kidnappings. Behind these figures lie destroyed families, razed villages and communities forced to flee.”
But at least you can now sleep easy knowing that the missing kangaroo is safe and sound, and you can start making plans to see Celine Dion in Paris.
