The Trump Administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria's government to stop violence against Christians after the President had threatened to send in the U.S. military against Islamic militants.

Right now, 253 children and 12 teachers are still being held after they were taken last week from a Catholic school in eastern Nigeria. A total of 303 students were initially abducted, but 50 managed to escape.

Earlier in the week, another 25 children, most of them Muslim, were kidnapped in a separate attack in eastern Nigeria.

Nigeria remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for Christians. Open Doors reports 69 percent of all Christians killed for their faith around the world last year were murdered in that country.

"Today we speak of blood," warned Mike Waltz, U.S. A

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