Demonic Hunters, Human Prey

A ROMAN PLAYWRIGHT named Plautus wrote, “Man is a wolf to man.” He wasn’t wrong, but he didn’t see the spiritual forces behind the humans who prey on others.

This week, we discuss the abduction of more than 200 students and teachers Friday from a Catholic school in Nigeria, just a few days after 25 schoolgirls were abducted at another Nigerian school. These are just the latest incidents in a long series of attacks against Christian communities by Muslims in Nigeria.

We also learned this week that the largest source of funding for the Somali Islamist...