The Mayor Mike Arnold-led American genocide-investigation team which recently concluded a tour of Niger, has moved to mobilize global efforts to save Nigerian Christians, whom they insist are undergoing severe persecution. In addition to sending a petition to US President Donald Trump, the missionaries on Tuesday followed up with an Open Letter and an online petition. Below is the Open Letter:

To the People of Nigeria: The Time to Rise Is Now

By Mike Arnold

October 14, 2025

My dear friends,

I speak to you today not as a foreigner, but as a brother, a witness, and one who has walked beside you for many years?across your cities, villages, and IDP camps?through joy, fear, and unspeakable loss. I have built schools, held orphans, buried the dead, and listened for hours to the stories of survivors the world has refused to see. I did not come to take anything from Nigeria?only to serve, and to tell the truth.

And now, the truth demands to be heard.

The Microcosm That Reveals Everything

At terrorist checkpoints in Nigeria?checkpoints that your government either cannot or will not prevent?passengers are sorted. First by faith. Then by gender. Christian men are executed on the spot. Muslim men are told: join us, or die. The women?Muslim and Christian alike?are taken as slaves.

This is not just a horrifying tactic. It is a blueprint. A microcosm of a greater system at work.

What happens on those dusty roads is happening at national scale: Christians are being systematically identified, targeted, displaced, and destroyed. Peaceful Muslims are radicalized?or eliminated. Entire communities are erased. Land is stolen. And the powerful look away.

This is not a ?conflict.? It is a genocide. And every day it continues, the evidence grows clearer, the witness list longer, and the shame deeper.

To the Leaders of Nigeria: The Whole World Is Watching

You cannot cover this up. Not anymore. The light is breaking through?and it is only the beginning.

The blood of martyrs cries from the soil. An entire generation of displaced Nigerians stands as living testimony. The weight of global scrutiny now building will not fade?it will only grow. You cannot outrun it. You cannot spin it.

The only path forward is radical transparency. Anything less?denial, deflection, persecution of truth-tellers?will ensure your names are etched not in history, but infamy.

Purge this evil from your ranks. Call upon the world if you must. Bring the killers and the corrupt to justice. Recognize and restore the displaced. Do it now.

You are standing at a crossroads: Reform and redemption?or exposure and collapse.

To the Church and the Mosques

You must lead. But not in comfort or compromise.

The Christian Association of Nigeria is compromised. The flashy preachers who peddle prosperity while widows starve are wolves in shepherd?s clothing. They do not speak for Jesus. Just as Boko Haram does not speak for Muhammad.

To all true pastors, imams, and leaders of faith: Now is your time. Speak. Stand. Risk everything. Or history will not remember you kindly.

To the Media: Words Can Save?or Destroy

If you are a journalist, your pen is a weapon. If you ignore facts, downplay reality, and parrot official spin, you pour fuel on a deadly fire. Innocents are dying while you fine-tune headlines.

Choose your words with reverence. Truth saves lives. Silence and spin cost them.

To the People: This Is Not Hopeless

This violence was not born yesterday. Foreign fighters and blood minerals may fuel it?but the roots are older. Deep corruption. Unchecked greed. Political cowardice. And the silence of too many good people.

But that silence is ending. You?Nigerians of every tribe, tongue, and faith?are rising. I see it. I feel it.

Let me say this clearly: This is not Islam versus Christianity.

The radicals want you to believe that. So do the politicians who benefit from division. But they lie.

This is good versus evil. Light versus darkness. Life versus death. Christians and peace-loving Muslims must stand together?against the killers, the corrupt, and the cowards who enable both.

To the International Community: Take Note

Nigeria is not just a domestic tragedy. It is the epicenter of global terrorism. What happens here does not stay here. If you look away now, the storm will reach your own shores.

If the Nigerian government cannot stop this, then the nations of the world must help stop it. Step in. Apply sanctions. Investigate. Speak out. This is not only a moral obligation?it is a matter of global security.

A Time of Choosing

The crisis in Nigeria is not theoretical. It is happening today. It happened yesterday. It will happen again tomorrow. Women will be raped. Children will be orphaned. Villages will burn.

But it does not have to be this way.

No reform, no policy, no economic strategy means anything if it is built on blood-soaked ground. A peaceful and prosperous nation can only stand on a foundation of truth and justice.

If you do not stand on your feet TODAY to end this evil, you may die on your knees tomorrow?as have untold tens of thousands of your countrymen in recent years.

But if you stand today?if you speak today?Nigeria can rise and shine. And the world will rise with you.

We must say, clearly and without apology: ?Never again.?

No more silence. No more fear. No more lies. No more complicity. No more innocent blood on Nigerian ground.

The long night is ending. The dawn is breaking.

Now is the time to rise!

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