'Only Islam Is the True Religion': The Persecution of Christians, May 2025
by Raymond Ibrahim • July 6, 2025 at 6:00 am
"This is not a farmer-herder clash. It is a genocidal campaign. Our communities are being wiped out methodically. The international community must not remain silent." — Dr. Joshua Riti, a local administrator, persecution.org, May 25, 2025 - Nigeria
"Typically, kidnapped girls... some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic 'marriages' and are then pressured to record false statements in favor of the kidnappers, rights advocates say. Judges routinely ignore documentary evidence related to the children's ages, handing them back to kidnappers as their 'legal wives.'" — Morning Star News, May 28, 2025 – Pakistan
Despite fierce opposition from Pakistan's top Islamic authority and other Islamist groups, on May 29, President Asif Ali Zardari, signed into law a landmark bill banning child marriage, setting the minimum age for marriage for both genders at 18 years, but only in the Islamabad Capital Territory, not the entire country.
"Somalia's constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any other religion... It also requires that laws comply with sharia (Islamic law) principles, with no exceptions in application for non-Muslims. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence." — Morning Star News, May 27, 2025
That there are so many "accidental" fires of churches in Egypt suggests one of two things: either the extremists have...become more sophisticated... in their attacks on churches... or else Coptic Christians, for some inexplicable reason, have become the most careless, fire-prone people in the world: more Coptic churches than any other kind seem to keep "accidentally catching fire."
A Christian woman managed to record the savage destruction and arson the Muslims carried out. (She was ordered by State Security to remove the video, which she did; some copies, however, evaded censorship.) — Egypt
This is hardly the first time in Berlin that Muslims target and attack people for being Christian. — Germany
"Posters on the fences of the Christian and Alawite city of Tartus in Syria: Either you immediately change your religion from Christian to Muslim and convert to Islam, or you pay protection and tribute fees with your lives. Unknown individuals are distributing posters throughout the city, and at the end it is written: All religions are infidels, and only Islam is the true religion." — X, May 20, 2025 -- Syria
"We live like refugees in our own country." — Monsignor Najeeb, Assyrian International News Agency, May 29, 2025, -- Iraq

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of May 2025.
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Nigeria: In the opening days of May, Muslim Fulani militants killed six Christians in Plateau State. "They hacked dead three Christians... and injured four others," said a local, adding that their aim is "to drive away Christian victims of terror." A pastor warned of "a grand design... to wipe out more than 200 Christian communities." The same report notes that over 3,100 Nigerian Christians were murdered last year.
On May 7, Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria, "after killing 10 others in the same area the previous month."
On May 12, the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, killed two Christian educational workers near an army base.