U.S. House of Representatives member Nancy Mace has described Nigeria as the world’s most dangerous place for Christians, lamenting the killings of Christians by “Islamic terrorists.”

Mrs Mace, who represents South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, said in a series of posts on X on Monday:

“Nigeria is the most dangerous place in the world for Christians,” Mrs Mace said. “5 Million Displaced. 850+ Christian Hostages. 600 Clergy Attacked.”

Accusing the international community of ignoring the killing of Christians in Nigeria, Mrs Mace said, “Islamic terrorists wiped out 18,000 churches in Nigeria.”

“For more than a decade, the world has turned a blind eye to the slaughter and suffering of Christians in Nigeria,” she added, citing the mass kidnap of schoolgirls in Chibok, a community predominated by Christians.

“In 2014, more than 250 Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram, ripped from their classrooms, forced into conversion, slavery, and unspeakable violence. Many were never seen again,” Mrs Mace said.

Amid the debate on Christian genocide in Nigeria ignited by Bill Maher’s statement, the Christian Association of Nigeria confirmed the killing of Christians by jihadists in Nigeria, calling for international support to tackle the menace.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has also proposed a “Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act” that would target government officials facilitating the murder of Christians and the implementation of “blasphemy laws” with sanctions.

While the New York Post has charged President Donald Trump to act based on the outcry over Christian genocide in Nigeria, other U.S. lawmakers,  Risch, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Riley Moore, have also spoken about the killing of Christians in Nigeria.

In a letter addressed to the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Mr. Moore, who represents West Virginia’s 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives, urged U.S. authorities to designate “Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC),” citing “reports that corrupt cells of the Nigerian government may be complicit, and even directly involved, in some of these attacks.”

Meanwhile, President Bola Tinubu, who had raised similar alarms over the killing of Christians as an opposition politician some years ago, has repeatedly denied that terrorists are targeting Christians in Nigeria.