An update on this story. And this is not the first time this level of violence against pastors and churches has occurred in Jos. "Nigeria - Six pastors killed, 40 churches razed in Jos violence," from Compass Direct News, December 11:
JOS, Nigeria, December 11 (Compass Direct News) – The murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property on Nov. 28-29 left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders.
More than 25,000 persons have been displaced in the two days of violence, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
What began as outrage over suspected vote fraud in local elections quickly hit the religious fault line that quakes from time to time in this city located between the Islamic north and Christian south, as angry Muslims took aim at Christian sites rather than at political targets. Police and troops reportedly killed about 400 rampaging Muslims in an effort to quell the unrest, and Islamists shot, slashed or stabbed to death most of more than 100 Christians.
Among Christians killed was Joseph Yari of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), Angwan Clinic,Tudun-Wada in Jos. On Nov. 28, his wife Mary Yari told Compass, he had returned from his workplace along Ibrahim Taiwo Road saying he was going to a Baptist church that Muslims were setting on fire.
“Shortly after my husband left, I heard anguished cries, only to be told that my husband had been shot dead on the premises of the church,” Yari said.
Her grief notwithstanding, she said she had forgiven the killers, as “they were ignorant of the crime they have committed because they do not know Jesus Christ.”
The Rev. Emmanuel Kyari, pastor of Christ Baptist Church, Tudun-Wada, told Compass that Joseph Yari died helping other Christians who repelled Muslim fanatics bent on burning down his church building.
“Yari was standing beside my wife when he was shot by Muslims,” Rev. Kyari said. “In addition to Yari who was killed, there were also three other Christians who were shot, and two died instantly.” [...]
sad...sooo sad. and not a thing being done by our people! and we call ourselves a Christan nation! shame!
as usual, you do not see these reports on the TV News...
Now if Bush's daughter was caught drinking a beer...well that's real News...
Christians need to stop being so stupid, arm themselves and protect themselves. this saying about forgiving some killer, sorry the person who died is not around to forgive, and only God can do that. Learn from the past to change the futur outcome.
'Police and troops reportedly killed about 400 rampaging Muslims in an effort to quell the unrest, and Islamists shot, slashed or stabbed to death most of more than 100 Christians.'
With 500 dead this surely was a major incident. You would think that killings on this scale would receive attention by the BBC particularly as Nigeria is a Commonwealth country. As far as I'm aware it wasn't reported by a UK newspaper either. So only the Queen and readers of jihadwatch are up to date with Muslim violence in Nigeria.
In February 2006, some 130 Nigerian Christians were murdered and 32 churches burnt by Muslim mobs incensed over the Danish Muhammad cartoons.
On Sept. 28, 2007, 10 Nigerian Christians were killed and nine churches burnt on the strength of a rumor that a Christian kid had drawn a cartoon on the wall of a mosque.
Same here in America Tommo. This is why Robert had to access the story from a Christian web-site, because the mainstream media doesn't consider the mass murder of 500 people and the killing of 6 priests as news-worthy.
Haven't we heard this before. Raze churches, temples, monasteries, synagogues and beat up monks, clergy, rabbis, priests through out the world. The sick religion of Islam and the zombie Mohammedans at it again.