100 students kidnapped from Nigerian Catholic school as Trump explodes over Christian violence

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/21/2025 | ROSS IBBETSON

[DFG]

Students and teachers have been kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school in a terrifying raid amid spiraling attacks on Christians.

Armed gangsters stole the children from St. Mary's School in Agwara, in central Nigeria, officials said Friday - the second kidnapping incident in less than a week.

Local residents fear that close to 100 students and staff were taken away in the early-morning assault. It comes after 25 schoolgirls were stolen by bandits in the country's northwest on Monday.

Donald Trump has threatened military action over the targeted killings of Nigeria's Christians by radical Islamists. The narrative is rejected by the Nigerian government.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with 220 million people, has been plagued by a 16-year jihadist insurgency in the Muslim-dominated north.

Terror groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State want to establish a caliphate and their campaign, which has drawn in mercenary bandits, is fueling mass kidnappings and deadly attacks on Christians.

The Catholic Church in the area said that 'armed attackers invaded' the school between 1am and 3am, abducting the kids and their teachers, and shooting a security guard.

The Niger state government said it had 'received with deep sadness the disturbing news of the kidnapping of pupils.

'The exact number of abducted pupils is yet to be confirmed as security agencies continue to assess the situation,' Abubakar Usman, the state government secretary, said in a statement.

After gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary school in Kebbi state in northwestern Nigeria, abducting 25 schoolgirls, Friday's attack further raises alarm over security in Africa's most populous country.

For years, heavily armed criminal gangs locally known as 'bandits' have been intensifying attacks in rural areas of northwest and central Nigeria with little state presence, killing thousands and conducting kidnappings for ransom.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: intercession

[Gay State Conservative]

Being a Christian in a moslem country is at least as dangerous as being a Jew in a moslem country. And that goes double for young Christians.

[aynrandfreak]

If the Pope was Catholic, he’d be just as angry.

[bankwalker]

did Trump really explode?

[Made In The USA]

Is there anything good that comes from that evil cult?

[Leaning Right]

> If the Pope was Catholic, he’d be just as angry. <

Leo is turning out to be just another Francis. Worried about (phony) Climate Change, and telling other countries (but not the Vatican) to accept illegal immigrants. But he says very little about the really important stuff.

[dfwgator]

did Trump really explode?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Socon-Econ]

That’s what happens when only the thugs and terrorists are armed. Christian Nigerians (including the women) in Muslim areas should be armed and organized into armed militias — led by commanders who shoot no-shows.

[Uncle Miltie]

Tagline remains 99% accurate.

[TBP]

But nobody is supposed to care when countries like India do it.

[heartwood]

Nigeria is nearly half Christian. The Muslims are trying to change that.

Obama backed a Muslim president, upsetting the previous power-sharing and alternation of office.

The Muslims have consolidated dominance of military and police forces, and those fellow do nothing as armed terrorists zoom in jeeps to sack, burn, rape, kidnap and kill.

I don’t want us to get fight a war in Africa but arming and training the Christians would be a good thing.

[Theo]

Yes, about “Christian Violence,” apparently. Those Christians sure can get violent. Explosively so.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Daily Fail for the **** headline.

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[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,I know that there are a fair number of Christians in various parts of Africa. We had a guide in Kenya who told us he was Christian....a great guy and a great guide. But unless I'm mistaken there are at least as many moslems in Africa as there are Christians and as I've learned in my travels there it is a substantially lawless continent.That's why Christian girls are particularly vulnerable.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Find a gay flag or a molecule of carbon dioxide and ask the pope and bishops about this.

We let ukraine fend for itself. We will let nigeria die too.