According to a new Morning Star News report from today, last Sunday in Adu village in Nigeria, Gabriel Anthony, 25, was "steeped in quiet, prayerful devotion at 5 a.m." when he heard gunshots: “Within minutes, bullets were piercing into our rooms,” said Gabriel. “I escaped from my room by jumping through the window.”

Then the same story that seemingly occurs weekly if not daily in Nigeria took place. Muslims, in this case, Fulani tribesmen, had invaded a Christian village and were slaughtering all they could find. A half hour later, seven of Gabriel's relatives — including father, mother, and siblings — were dead.

Two other Christians — a husband and wife — were also slaughtered in their homes. All those killed were members of Adu's St. Andrew’s Catholic Church.

Local Christian leaders complained that, "in spite of promises by these Fulani leaders that these attacks will not occur again, we have continued to witness these beastly attacks.”

Making promises only to break them — specifically in the context of taqiyya — is part of the Islamic heritage.

According to Rev. Yakubu Gandu Nkut, pastor of Nigeria's Evangelical Church Winning, "Islamic extremist groups have increasingly incited Fulani Muslims to attack Christians in Kaduna and Plateau states as well as in Bauchi, Nasarawa and Benue... Fulani herdsmen, with backing from Islamic extremist groups, want to take over the predominantly Christian areas in order to acquire land for grazing, stockpile arms and expand Islamic territory."

In other words, it's the same old story of how Islam came into being: aggression and expansion.

But what does the U.S. think of all this? The same Secretary of State John Kerry who is now calling for war in Syria, hypocritically in the name of human rights, is the same secretary of state who warned the Nigerian government against infringing on the "human rights" of Boko Haram, the head of the Islamist snake in Nigeria, which has been responsible for the slaughter of thousands of Christians and destruction of hundreds of churches in Nigeria.

That speaks for itself concerning what U.S. leadership thinks of the plight of Christians in Nigeria — even as it prepares to wage war on behalf of Christian persecuting jihadis in Syria.

A report on Tahrir News today titled, "Greek Orthodox Patriarch to Pope Tawadros: 'Putin Stressed to Me Russia's Support for Egypt During My Visit,'" discusses how, among other things, Patriarch Theodore II, the current Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, just informed Coptic Pope Tawadros II that, in his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the latter "confirmed that Russia supports Egypt and its military during this transitional period and in all international circles."

The report further added that "General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [the foremost man responsible for overthrowing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt] asked the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, through its relations with the heads of Orthodox churches around the world, to support Egypt on its revolutionary road to democracy."

All of this follows an address that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave in late July before a number of top Orthodox clergy — an address that showed how Russia is increasingly becoming the greatest hope for persecuted Christians:

Putin noted that in many regions of the world, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, inter-confessional tensions were growing and the rights of religious minorities including Christians were infringed upon. “I believe” he said, “this acute problem should become a subject of close attention of the international community. Our country will continue pursuing an active creative policy towards the soonest possible settlement of conflict situations. And here, of course, the active stand, participation and support of Local Orthodox Churches and their primates are very important for us.”

Thus, and once again, the Russian leader proves himself a mature and responsible statesman, looking for peace and stability in the Middle East — even as his American counterparts warmonger and lie on behalf of Islamists (Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt) and jihadis (al-Qaeda in Syria), the very same people who ruthlessly persecute Christians, not to mention despise everything the West represents.