“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others beside them whom you do not know.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Attack On Churches: 35 pastors abducted/killed in 17 months,” by Luminous Jannamike, Vanguard, June 19, 2022:
It’s quite a herculean task to get one’s head around how many Christians have been attacked, abducted and killed already in 2022. Though one might hear about individual events like the Owo church attack, it is quite tough to get a sense of the scale.
After terrorists set off explosives at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State two weeks ago, the blood of 38 innocent worshippers who were murdered in cold blood was splashed on the ground around the whole of the church.
The Owo attack, according to eye witnesses, featured an unusual amount of planning and coordination characterized the violence as multiple gunmen inside and outside the church shot parishioners before escaping in a getaway car.
Painfully, the attack on St. Francis Church was not the only one that jolted Christians in Nigeria. In fact, more than 100 worshippers were killed that week across the country.
A few days before the Owo incident, suspected militants killed 32 Christians in an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) parish in Kajuru, Kaduna State. After the attack, the church members could not attend service due to the trauma. The attackers reportedly arrived and left on inconspicuous motorcycles.
In Plateau State, which borders Southern part of Kaduna State, two Christian students were killed after Sunday service when suspected terrorists visited the school hostel at night and killed the two male students.
Barely seven days ago, 11 Christians were murdered in Benue State’s Igama community in Okpokwu Local Government Area in what many consider as religious persecution.
When the Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Samuel Kalu Uche, and two of his acolytes were recently abducted by armed men, his congregation of nearly two million people quickly mobilized over a N100 million ransom for their release.
In five bags, the representatives of the church stashed local currencies to the tune of N20 million each and dropped off at a designated place which the kidnappers picked up later in a truck without number plate.
The money was the price to free the three clerics who were taken at Umunneochi in Abia State while on their way to catch a flight to Lagos….
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims abduct or kill 35 Christian pastors in the last 17 months
It’s quite a herculean task to get one’s head around how many Christians have been attacked, abducted and killed already in 2022…
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God knows this is true–and few in the West are even aware of this genocide by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.
john smith says
The slaughter of Christians continues and the world remains silent. if the tables were turned and it was Christians slaughtering muslims it would be broadcasted from every news outlet everyday of the week.
So why is it the MSM turns a blind eye to this? the only conclusion I can come to is fear, fear of muslim reprisals, I can’t come up with anything else.
somehistory says
John,
Remember, Jesus said. “the world has hated me,” and “you will be objects of hatred by the world,” so they are afraid as you say, but they hate Christians more even than they fear, I believe.
john smith says
Thank you for this Somehistory, I never looked at it that way before.
somehistory says
You are more than welcome, John. I hope your day is going well.
john smith says
Thank you Somehistory, and yes I’ve had a lovely today the weather has been superb so I taken my dogs to lakes. I live in the Snowdonia national park so I’m surrounded by the most beautiful countryside that the UK has to offer, so I never have to go to far.
Hope your day is going well also.
somehistory says
John,
I’m glad for you to have a beautiful place to reside, esp in these troubled times. I’ve watched a lot of programs filmed in the U.K. It is a beautiful country.
I got up to take my car to have the brakes checked as they have begun to squeal a little, but found myself with a migraine…unusual for me…and all that goes with one of those, so no go for the car. I’m feeling a little better this afternoon.
The weather here was very nice today, thank you.
somehistory says
El País (USA)
J”ihadist group kills 132 civilians in central Mali”
A mozlum terror group associated with al queda
“hey executed civilians, mostly men, and set fire to houses, barns and vehicles, forcing the rest of the community to flee towards Bankass, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) away.”
Washington Examiner
“Catholic priests slaughtered inside church by Mexican cartel, bodies stolen”
Catholics are demanding the return of the bodies of two priests who were murdered after attempting to prevent drug traffickers from killing a man inside their church.
“It is with great sadness and pain that we mourn Father Javier Campos Morales, Father Joaquin Mora Salazar, and the man who, unfortunately, lost his life along with them,” the Diocese of the Tarahumara region of Western Chihuahua said Tuesday”
I’m wondering how many mozlums have joined the drug cartels in mexico and are a large part of this killing that is happening rather frequently. It has been long known that mozlums traffic in drugs in order to fund their terror, have been travelling to the countries of Central and South America and up into the U.S., so if this group was mainly mozlums, it would be no surprise.
gravenimage says
Horrible stuff, Somehistory.
Shema says
The world would be so much better with more Christians.
I am by no means blaming them, but are they arming themselves, killing those who come to kill them? It doesn’t seem like it. Why not?
If you are a Christian you are not a victim, but a victor. Start acting like it.
Purely my opinion, i have no real knowledge within Nigeria other than reading constant stories about Muslims persecuting and killing Christians. Never the other way around.
OLD GUY says
Just think of the media reaction to Christians killing 35 Islamic clerics in the past 17 months.
Islam the religion of death and violence.
somehistory says
“Nigerian troops have found two former schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists eight years ago, the military said Tuesday, freeing some of the last victims of the 2014 Chibok abduction.
The two women each carried babies on their laps as they were presented by the military, after captivity with militants who stormed their school in April, 2014 in northeast Nigeria in a mass kidnapping that sparked international outrage.”
AFP
“Two kidnapped Chibok girls freed in Nigeria after eight years”
“Dozens of Boko Haram militants stormed the Chibok girls’ boarding school in 2014 and packed 276 pupils, aged 12-17, at the time into trucks in the jihadist group’s first mass school abduction.
Fifty-seven of the girls managed to escape by jumping from the trucks shortly after their abduction while 80 were released in exchange for some detained Boko Haram commanders following negotiations with the Nigerian government.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/two-kidnapped-chibok-girls-freed-in-nigeria-after-eight-years/ar-AAYIUa6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=
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