A Night of Unimaginable Horror in Northern Mozambique
In the sweltering heat of northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces, a nightmare unfolded in late September that should have sent shockwaves through the corridors of global power. Over 30 defenceless Christians—men, women, and likely children among them—were savagely beheaded by militants from the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP), the local arm of the bloodthirsty ISIS terror network. This wasn’t a random act of barbarism; it was a calculated strike against the very soul of Christianity, part of a relentless campaign to eradicate believers in one of Africa’s most volatile regions.
The attacks, spanning from 25 September to 29 September, targeted isolated villages like Chiure-Velho, Macomia, Nacocha, Nacussa, Minhanha, and Nakioto. Gunmen stormed neighbourhoods under the cover of night, dragging victims from their homes and executing them with machetes or gunfire for the crime of professing faith in Christ. In Chiure-Velho alone, two Christians were beheaded on 25 September, followed by the shooting of another the next day. By 28 September, four more fell in Macomia Town, and on the 29th, yet another was decapitated in the district. ISMP didn’t stop at murder; they torched at least seven churches and over 100 homes, reducing symbols of hope to smouldering ruins. The militants crowed about their atrocities, releasing a grotesque gallery of 20 photographs documenting the beheadings, shootings, and arsons—images so horrific they bear the stark warning of graphic content from monitors like the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The Poisonous Ideology Fuelling the Slaughter
This evil isn’t born in a vacuum. It’s the poisonous fruit of radical Islamist ideology, the same Wahhabi-tinged jihadism that ISIS has exported from the deserts of Syria and Iraq to the shores of the Indian Ocean. ISMP, sworn to the black flag of the caliphate since 2017, operates under the chilling banner of their 2025 offensive: “Kill Them Wherever You Find Them.” To these fanatics, Christians aren’t just infidels; they’re “symbols of resistance” to their dream of a strict Islamic state carved from Mozambique’s resource-rich north. Since the insurgency ignited eight years ago, over 6,200 souls have been slaughtered, and more than a million displaced—figures that dwarf many of the “crises” the mainstream media loves to amplify. Yet Mozambique’s Defence Minister has admitted that even with Rwandan troops bolstering local forces since 2021, the jihadists keep pushing south, uncoordinated strikes turning into coordinated terror.
The Global Canvas of Christian Martyrdom
Zoom out, and the picture in Mozambique is but a bloodstain on a global canvas of Christian martyrdom. According to Open Doors’ World Watch List 2025, a staggering 380 million Christians worldwide endure high levels of persecution and discrimination simply for their faith—with 310 million facing the worst of it in the top 50 most hostile nations. The International Christian Concern echoes this, pegging the number at around 300 million facing imprisonment, torture, and assassination. From Nigeria’s Fulani herdsmen slaughtering villagers to Pakistan’s blasphemy mobs torching churches, the genocide against Christians rages unchecked. Converts from Islam face disownment, forced marriages, or worse; church youth workers are hunted for daring to resist recruitment into cartels. Mozambique itself has rocketed up the peril index, from 39th to 37th worst place for believers, with 100 churches attacked or shuttered in the past year alone—a tenfold spike.
The Mainstream Media’s Selective Silence
And where is the outrage? Buried under a mountain of selective silence from the leftist-dominated mainstream media. While talking heads weep over every perceived slight against Islamist narratives—be it in Gaza or on Western campuses—the systematic erasure of Christians barely registers a blip. Remember Bill Maher’s blunt takedown just weeks ago? He lambasted the press for ignoring the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, quipping it’s because “the Jews aren’t involved.” It’s a damning indictment: leftists and their Islamist allies flood streets in protests defending Hamas terrorists or decrying “Islamophobia,” yet when over 30 heads roll in Mozambique for bearing the cross, crickets. This isn’t journalism; it’s complicity, a deliberate inversion where the victims of jihad are footnotes, and the perpetrators get kid-glove treatment.
Biblical Warning: Calling Evil Good in the End Times
As the Prophet Isaiah warned in the Scriptures, foretelling the moral rot of the end times: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20, KJV). In this upside-down age, the faithful are vilified as bigots, while butchers in black masks are recast as “freedom fighters.” The Church in Mozambique prays amid the ashes, but the world—preoccupied with its progressive pieties—looks away.
Time to Shatter the Silence
It’s time to shatter that silence. The genocide of Christians isn’t a relic of history; it’s the bleeding edge of our reality. Demand accountability. Amplify the truth. Or history will judge us not just as witnesses, but as enablers. Which side of history will you be on?
