Nicki Minaj praised for spotlighting Christian persecution in Nigeria: 'Body count is just too high to ignore'

Rap prima Nicki Minaj is garnering praise for utilizing her level to shed airy connected the persecution of Christians successful Nigeria.

Ahead of Minaj's scheduled quality astatine the United Nations with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, Knox Thames, a quality rights lawyer, thanked the rapper for the attraction that she and different stars, similar Bill Maher, person brought to the issue.

"The challenges successful Nigeria person been happening for decades, and they've mostly been ignored. So I invited these unsuspecting allies shining a airy connected this," Thames said of the celebrities.

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Rapper Nicki Minaj and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz volition code persecution of Christians successful Nigeria connected Tuesday. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images:Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Thames, who served arsenic a State Department peculiar advisor for spiritual minorities nether erstwhile President George W. Bush, erstwhile President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump, said that successful Nigeria, "the assemblage number is conscionable excessively precocious to ignore." While helium would not accidental definitively that what is happening successful Nigeria is simply a genocide, helium said it is thing that indispensable beryllium addressed.

"This question of, ‘is determination a Christian genocide happening?’ It's a ineligible question. Genocide is defined by planetary law, and scholars volition statement that. But what's undeniable is that successful the past 20 years, thousands of Christians person been killed, and the assemblage number is conscionable excessively precocious to ignore," Thames said.

Trump announced successful precocious October that helium was designating Nigeria arsenic a "country of peculiar concern," citing the wide killings of Christians successful the West African nation.

"Christianity is facing an existential menace successful Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are liable for this wide slaughter," Trump wrote successful a station connected Truth Social connected Oct. 31. "The United States cannot basal by portion specified atrocities are happening successful Nigeria, and galore different countries. We basal ready, willing, and capable to prevention our large Christian colonisation astir the world!"

Rap prima Nicki Minaj thanked President Donald Trump for shedding airy connected the persecution of Christians successful Nigeria. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation; Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images; Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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Following the announcement, Minaj said the president's connection made her "feel a heavy consciousness of gratitude."

"Reading this made maine consciousness a heavy consciousness of gratitude. We unrecorded successful a state wherever we tin freely worship God. No radical should ever beryllium persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t person to stock the aforesaid beliefs successful bid for america to respect each other," Minaj wrote.

On Tuesday, Minaj volition code the United Nations connected the contented of the persecution of Nigerian Christians.

Nicki Minaj performs onstage during her Pink Friday 2 World Tour — New York astatine Madison Square Garden connected Sept. 7, 2024, successful New York City.  (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Live Nation)

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Waltz, who said helium was a instrumentality of the rapper, said connected X, "I'm grateful she's leveraging her monolithic level to spotlight the atrocities against Christians successful Nigeria, and I look guardant to lasting with her arsenic we sermon the steps the President and his medication are taking to extremity the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters."

Minaj replied, "Ambassador, I americium truthful grateful to beryllium entrusted with an accidental of this magnitude. I bash not instrumentality it for granted. It means much than you know. The Barbz and I volition ne'er basal down successful the look of injustice. We’ve been fixed our power by God. There indispensable beryllium a bigger purpose."

Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.