Episode Details

Are Nigerian Christian People, Churches and Schools being Persecuted (Episode 336)?

What does it change when you’ve stood inside a room-stained blue by gas, walked past rows of wooden bunks that trapped heat, and stared at steel cages overflowing with worn shoes? That memory doesn’t sit quietly; it points forward—and it won’t let us look away from fresh reports of identity-based violence today.

We draw a straight, careful line between what was witnessed at Majdanek and what credible investigators and journalists are reporting in parts of Nigeria: targeted killings, burned churches and schools, communities living with fear, and families carrying the weight of ambiguous loss when someone doesn’t come home. The goal isn’t shock; it’s clarity. We ground the numbers in sources, stress precision over generalization, and ask what mental health care looks like when trauma is ongoing rather than over. From psychological first aid to community rituals that restore agency, we share practical ways faith leaders, neighbors, and listeners can help survivors stabilize, grieve, and rebuild without erasing the truth of what happened.

Along the way, we talk about grief as it really feels—wave-like, unpredictable, and human regardless of belief or geography. We sit with the tension of honoring faith while resisting the urge to flatten complex realities. And we name a hard but hopeful claim: justice is a health intervention. When violence is acknowledged and accountability pursued, symptoms ease because the world becomes a little more coherent. That’s why storytelling matters, why verification matters, and why solidarity—between Ohio and Nigeria, between past and present—can turn empathy into action.

If this conversation moved you, subscribe, share it with someone who cares about human dignity, and leave a review so more people can find it. Your voice helps turn remembrance into responsibility.

Chapter Markers

0:00 Welcome and Milestone Gratitude

1:17 Trigger Warning and Topic Framing

2:06 Setting the WWII Context

4:56 Arrival, Deception, and Selection

7:31 Gas Chambers, Labor, and Control

10:58 Visiting Majdanek: Evidence Seen

14:23 Barracks, Heat, and Conditions

17:38 Mass Shootings and Burial Sites

19:53 Artifacts: Shoes, Crematoria, Proof

23:04 Turning to Present-Day Nigeria

24:15 Reported Killings and Sources

26:45 Burned Churches, Schools, and Data

28:43 Press Blind Spots and Reach

31:06 Why This Matters to Mental Health

34:12 Grief, Uncertainty, and Faith

37:08 Universality of Trauma and Worth

40:05 Hopes, Blessing, and Closing

#NigerianChristians #ReligiousPersecution #ChurchesInNigeria #ChristianityInNigeria #PersecutionAwareness #NigeriaNews #FaithUnderFire #HumanRightsNigeria #ChristianSchoolsNigeria #ProtectOurFaith #ReligiousFreedomNigeria #NigerianChurchChallenges #VoicesOfThePersecuted #ChristianCommunitySupport #StopReligiousViolence #justiceforsurvivors #justice4survivors #VoicesforVoices #VoicesforVoicesPodcast #JustinAlanHayes #JustinHayes #help3billion #TikTok #Instagram #truth #factoverfictionmatters #transparency #VoiceForChange #HealingTogether #VoicesForVoices336

Support the show