According to eyewitnesses, some Catholics, who had gone to the church to pray were attacked by the Muslims on the claim that Friday was their day of prayer and that the Church only had right to worship on Sundays.
Information gathered from eyewitnesses showed that they destroyed the Church properties, including doors and windows.
“Although some soldiers managed to get there but a lot of harm had been done to the building, while the Christians ran away in different directions to avoid being killed”, the source hinted.
It should be recalled that Alhaji Kabiru Sokoto had on Christmas day four years ago (December 25, 2011) detonated a bomb that killed over 200 Catholics and passersby at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, close to St. Philips that was destroyed.
Rev Fr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, the Vicar-General of the Diocese confirmed the incident.
He said, “Sometime around 2pm, some Muslim youths in their hundreds left their Mosque after their Friday Jumat prayer and rushed to the Church premises, climbed the wall and destroyed everything in the Church: the windows, the alter, musical instruments, the chapel.
“The security man in the church premises was beaten to pulp. Some women who were holding a prayer meeting were chased away. The seminarian who is resident in the premises was also beaten up and chased away.”
Just last week, Mrs Eunice Olawale Elisha, a mobile preacher of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was killed by some fanatical Muslims in Kubwa, FCT. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Islam is a religion of peace indeed
ReplyDelete.... and this is a religion of PEACE! I wonder when the world will declear a state of emergency on this evil religion called ISLAM.
ReplyDeleteThe Media are problem to themselves. Why they always call this evil people Muslim? A group of youths in Niger state attacked church simple.
ReplyDeleteOga George were the Youths Christians.? Why are people failing to call a spade a spade
DeletePeace indeed. This is no longer funny.
ReplyDeleteA religion of violence and evil yet they keep saying its a religion of peace. Foolish religion.
ReplyDeleteThere is no monopoly to violence. At the right time, the tables will turn. Since no Islamic cleric is rising up to the occasion to openly condemn this heinous crime by their youths, there should be no wailers when they start enjoying the fruit of their Labour.
ReplyDeleteTo be sincere Islam is not religion.it's called a sect.not religion.no religion on earth is violent as musilms or Islam. Is in the Quran.
ReplyDeleteMay God forgive you because you need prayer, I do believe Muslims are living in your area ,please can you tell me how many times Muslims in your area attacked you or your family ? If some group are performing evil, we need to condemn those people who continue enjoying with evil not the religion . Islam means peace and Quran means Wisdom.
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There are many Violence verses in the Bible more than Quran , I am not here to condemn any religion , but people need to stop all their hatred comment.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Kill everyone in the town if they worship other gods
Deuteronomy 13:12-19 – If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. Gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt. None of those condemned things shall be found in your hands, so that the LORD will turn from his fierce anger; he will show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.
Exodus 22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
Matthew 10:33 But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven. 34 Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn ‘A man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
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Finally
Quran 7:199 ''Show forgiveness, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the foolish (i.e. don't punish them).
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
ReplyDeleteHe that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
The orientor of world war 1 was a christain of which millions lost their lives wwII STill a christian of which over ten million from christian nationalities lost their lives, of recent a gay club in orlando florida was attacked,n is being considered as muslim n terrorist,bt investigation by fBI from 1980 2 2010 90percent of attacks n terorism in the us soil is carried out by christians,n sombody hav d guts 2 call a muslim a terrorist.
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