{"id":66648,"date":"2025-11-05T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=66648"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:41:22","slug":"aaf-and-icc-congress-must-act-to-stop-the-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/aaf-and-icc-congress-must-act-to-stop-the-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"AAF e ICC: El Congreso debe actuar para detener el genocidio de cristianos en Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Nigeria (International Christian Concern) \u2014 <\/strong><\/span> Por una vez, Bill Maher tiene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/SQ_YB4DgE-4\">derecho<\/a>. Una de las crisis m\u00e1s horribles pero menos reportadas de nuestro tiempo se est\u00e1 desarrollando en Nigeria, la naci\u00f3n m\u00e1s poblada de \u00c1frica y hogar de una de las mayores<br \/>\ncomunidades cristianas del continente.<\/p>\n<p>Un nuevo <a href=\"https:\/\/intersociety-ng.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nigeria-Headquartering-22-Islamic-Terror-Groups-In-Africa-Seeking-To-Obliterate-Christianity-And-Indigenous-Cultural-Heritage-And-Impose-Sultanate-In-Nigeria-By.pdf\">informe<\/a> por la Sociedad Internacional para las Libertades Civiles y el Estado de Derecho, con sede en Nigeria, conocida como <a href=\"https:\/\/intersociety-ng.org\/\">Intersociety<\/a>, revela una campa\u00f1a de destrucci\u00f3n tan implacable que exige una acci\u00f3n inmediata. Seg\u00fan sus hallazgos, los grupos yihadistas est\u00e1n destruyendo aproximadamente 100 iglesias cada mes. Desde que Boko Haram lanz\u00f3 su sangrienta insurgencia en 2009, se estima que <a href=\"https:\/\/rileymoore.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-moore-urges-secretary-state-designate-nigeria-country-particular\">19,100 iglesias<\/a> han sido atacadas, quemadas o cerradas a punta de pistola.<\/p>\n<p>Mientras tanto, los manifestantes antisemitas pro-Gaza reciben una cobertura medi\u00e1tica total. Sin embargo, los medios no se molestan en cubrir un genocidio real que ocurre contra los cristianos nigerianos.<\/p>\n<p>La violencia no es simplemente el subproducto de \u201cdisputas territoriales\u201d o \u201crencillas locales\u201d. Es un asalto sistem\u00e1tico dise\u00f1ado para borrar completamente el cristianismo de Nigeria. Intersociety <a href=\"https:\/\/intersociety-ng.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nigeria-Headquartering-22-Islamic-Terror-Groups-In-Africa-Seeking-To-Obliterate-Christianity-And-Indigenous-Cultural-Heritage-And-Impose-Sultanate-In-Nigeria-By.pdf\">reports<\/a> que desde 2009, la asombrosa cifra de 185,000 nigerianos perdieron la vida a causa de la violencia yihadista, y m\u00e1s de dos tercios de ese total eran cristianos. M\u00e1s de 7,000 cristianos fueron masacrados solo en los primeros 220 d\u00edas de este a\u00f1o, un promedio de 32 por d\u00eda. Miles m\u00e1s han sido secuestrados, incluidos muchos pastores y mujeres j\u00f3venes que son blanco de rescates, conversiones forzadas o esclavitud sexual. Todo esto mientras el gobierno nigeriano no hace nada para poner fin a la violencia.<\/p>\n<p>Los perpetradores son bien conocidos: Boko Haram, el Estado Isl\u00e1mico de \u00c1frica Occidental y militantes fulani fuertemente armados. Juntos han convertido regiones enteras en campos de exterminio empapados de sangre, dispersando a los fieles y vaciando comunidades cristianas que alguna vez fueron pr\u00f3speras. A menos que se haga algo dr\u00e1stico r\u00e1pidamente, el cristianismo en Nigeria podr\u00eda desaparecer en el pr\u00f3ximo medio siglo.<\/p>\n<p>La historia ofrece precedentes dolorosos. En la actual Turqu\u00eda, que alguna vez fue el coraz\u00f3n de la cristiandad bizantina, siglos de yihad borraron una de las grandes civilizaciones cristianas del mundo. Las iglesias se convirtieron en ruinas o mezquitas. En Egipto, oleadas de persecuci\u00f3n y conversiones forzadas redujeron a las pr\u00f3speras comunidades coptas a sombras de lo que fueron. Lo que sucedi\u00f3 en estas tierras antiguas puede volver a suceder en Nigeria en el siglo XXI.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 deber\u00edan preocuparse los estadounidenses? Estados Unidos es el l\u00edder del mundo libre. En virtud de nuestro enorme poder econ\u00f3mico y de pol\u00edtica exterior, deber\u00edamos aislar a pa\u00edses como Nigeria, que permiten el genocidio, reteniendo el comercio, los beneficios o cualquier otro privilegio de asociaci\u00f3n con los Estados Unidos de Am\u00e9rica. En \u00faltima instancia, apoyar a un r\u00e9gimen que est\u00e1 llevando a cabo un genocidio, o mirar hacia otro lado mientras ocurre, es inmoral y fundamentalmente antiestadounidense.<\/p>\n<p>Ignorar la erradicaci\u00f3n del cristianismo en Nigeria envalentonar\u00eda a los yihadistas en todas partes y se\u00f1alar\u00eda que la sangre de los m\u00e1rtires no significa nada para nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>Para su cr\u00e9dito, el presidente Trump, durante su primera administraci\u00f3n, calific\u00f3 a Nigeria como un Pa\u00eds de Especial Preocupaci\u00f3n. Frustrantemente, menos de un a\u00f1o despu\u00e9s, el presidente Biden revirti\u00f3 inexplicablemente esa designaci\u00f3n incluso cuando los ataques contra los cristianos se estaban intensificando. Hoy, el senador Ted Cruz, republicano por Texas, tiene una legislaci\u00f3n que corregir\u00eda este error hist\u00f3rico.<\/p>\n<p>Su proyecto de ley, la Ley de Responsabilidad de Libertad Religiosa de Nigeria de 2025, impondr\u00eda costos reales a los funcionarios nigerianos que permiten o ignoran esta persecuci\u00f3n, a trav\u00e9s de sanciones, presi\u00f3n diplom\u00e1tica y la verg\u00fcenza p\u00fablica que conlleva la rendici\u00f3n de cuentas internacional. Tambi\u00e9n requerir\u00eda que el Departamento de Estado designe a Nigeria como un Pa\u00eds de Especial Preocupaci\u00f3n y mantenga las designaciones de Entidades de Especial Preocupaci\u00f3n para Boko Haram y el ISIS-\u00c1frica Occidental.<\/p>\n<p>Para millones de creyentes en Nigeria, cada domingo es un acto de desaf\u00edo. Se re\u00fanen sabiendo que su servicio religioso podr\u00eda convertirse en el escenario de una masacre, pero aun as\u00ed adoran. Est\u00e1n sostenidos por una fe mucho m\u00e1s fuerte que las bombas o las balas. Lo menos que podemos hacer es igualar su valent\u00eda con acciones.<\/p>\n<p>Hoy, la sangre de miles de m\u00e1rtires nigerianos clama por justicia. La Ley de Responsabilidad de Libertad Religiosa de Nigeria es un primer paso firme para responder a ese clamor. Aunque pueda haber divisi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, la libertad religiosa debe trascender a los partidos pol\u00edticos. El Congreso deber\u00eda unirse a pesar de estas divisiones para proteger a los perseguidos sin<br \/>\ndelay.<\/p>\n<p>La supervivencia del cristianismo en la naci\u00f3n m\u00e1s poblada de \u00c1frica puede depender de ello.<\/p>\n<p>Art\u00edculo de Paul Teller, asesor principal de Advancing American Freedom, y Shawn Wright, presidente entrante de International Christian Concern<\/p>\n<p><strong>Para leer m\u00e1s noticias, visite la\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.org\/news\/\">Sala de prensa de ICC<\/a>. Para entrevistas, por favor env\u00ede un correo electr\u00f3nico a<\/strong><strong>\u202f<a href=\"mailto:press@persecution.org\">press@persecution.org.<\/a> Para apoyar el trabajo de ICC en todo el mundo, por favor done a nuestro <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.qgiv.com\/for\/internationalchristianconcern?_gl=1*39c47j*_gcl_au*OTYxMTk5MTE2LjE3NTAwODQ5MzA.*_ga*MzI3MDk1MTMzLjE3MTA5NTYxMTQ.*_ga_0FDDQ3PH5L*czE3NTMyODYzNjAkbzEyMTkkZzEkdDE3NTMyODYzNjgkajUyJGwwJGgw\">Fondo Donde M\u00e1s Se Necesita<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La publicaci\u00f3n <a href=\"https:\/\/persecution.org\/2025\/10\/15\/aaf-and-icc-congress-must-act-to-stop-the-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria\/\">AAF e ICC: El Congreso debe actuar para detener el genocidio de cristianos en Nigeria<\/a> apareci\u00f3 por primera vez en <a href=\"https:\/\/persecution.org\">Preocupaci\u00f3n Cristiana Internacional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/persecution.org\/2025\/10\/15\/aaf-and-icc-congress-must-act-to-stop-the-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/persecution.org\/2025\/10\/15\/aaf-and-icc-congress-must-act-to-stop-the-genocide-of-christians-in-nigeria\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria (International Christian Concern) \u2014 Por una vez, Bill Maher tiene raz\u00f3n. Una de las crisis m\u00e1s horribles y, sin embargo, menos reportadas de nuestro tiempo se est\u00e1 desarrollando en Nigeria, la naci\u00f3n m\u00e1s poblada de \u00c1frica y hogar de una de las comunidades cristianas m\u00e1s grandes del continente. Un nuevo informe de la Sociedad Internacional para las Libertades Civiles y el [\u2026] con sede en Nigeria<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":66647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-66648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ICC-Favicon-80px-20.png?fit=80%2C80&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67981,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/trump-announces-cpc-designation-for-nigeria\/","url_meta":{"origin":66648,"position":0},"title":"Trump Announces CPC Designation for Nigeria","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"enero 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"On Friday, President Donald Trump did something Christians around the world have been urging him to do since he took office.\u00a0\u00a0 In a message on social media, Trump acknowledged the atrocities that Christians in Nigeria face daily, saying that \u201cRadical Islamists\u00a0are responsible for\u00a0this mass slaughter. 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