This is not about religion, ethnicity, or nationality. It is about fellow human beings whose dignity is being crushed. Defending them is not a left wing or right wing cause; it is the plain demand of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ Article 18.

Imagine you are a parent in Papiri, Niger state, Nigeria. It is early morning on the Second Sunday of Advent, December 7, weeks before Christmas, and you clutch the last school uniform of your 12-year-old daughter.

On November 21, gunmen stormed St. Mary’s Catholic School, abducting 303 children and 12 teachers. Fifty escaped; more than 250 vanished into bandit networks. You don’t know if your daughter has water, food, or—God forbid—has been raped or sold into sexual slavery. This Christmas there will be no family dinner, no midnight

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