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Nigeria: Catholics tell president “we are tired of burying our priests” as genocide of Christians continues

Oct 4, 2019 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Catholic leaders in Nigeria have decried the reigning state of unrest and violence in the country, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to step up to his responsibility of protecting Nigerian citizens.”

Expect nothing to be done. “Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, who is himself of the Fulani ethnic group, has encouraged a narrative that minimizes the importance of religion in the conflict between Muslims and Christians in central Nigeria.”

It is commonplace for Islamic supremacists to claim that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. In many cases they say that Islam has nothing to do with violence and terrorism, despite ubiquitous evidence to the contrary and Islamic texts that indicate otherwise.

Two local Catholic bishops and other Christian leaders “have insisted that the violence represents a ‘clear agenda for Islamizing the Nigerian Middle Belt’ by using armed Fulani jihadists.”

The genocide of Christians by Fulani jihadists is ongoing.

“Nigerian Catholics Tell President: ‘We Are Tired of Burying Our Priests,’” by Thomas D Williams, Breitbart, October 1, 2019:

Catholic leaders in Nigeria have decried the reigning state of unrest and violence in the country, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to step up to his responsibility of protecting Nigerian citizens.

“Nigerians are tired of losing their dear ones to these killings,” said the national president of the Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria (CLCN), Thomas Adekoya. “Catholics are tired of mourning and burying their priests who are daily murdered for no just cause.”

Mr. Adekoya was referring to scores of killings of Christians over the past months at the hands of different Muslim groups, including recent murders of Catholic priests in the country.

The Catholic Church is at “the receiving end of some of the most bizarre of these killings,” Adekoya said, recounting how Father David Tanko was killed by gunmen in late August while traveling to attend a meeting to seek an end to the violent crisis.

“What made Fr. Tanko’s murder more gruesome was the fact that his assailants not only killed him, they set his body ablaze in his car,” he said.

Mr. Adekoya also recalled how earlier that same month, Fr. Paul Offu of Enugu Diocese was murdered, and Fr. Clement Ugwu was kidnapped and killed some months before.

Decrying “the killings of these anointed men of God,” Adekoya said that the government “has lost grip of the security situation in the country.”….

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Filed Under: Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, Nigeria Tagged With: Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria, Father David Tanko, Fulani jihadists, President Muhammadu Buhari, Thomas Adekoya


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  1. somehistory says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 11:10 am

    And the president couldn’t care less…except that he is encouraging the slaughter by not being against it.

    A moslim, president of a country or not, is not going to do anything to protect those he would kill if running with the crowd that is doing the killing. If not sitting in the president’s seat, he might just be joining in the massacres.

    Who can accurately say what he is talking with his minions about behind their closed doors?

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 11:11 am

    Where do the Fulani “herdsmen” get their automatic guns from?

    Is it a coincidence that the President is a Fulani?

    • Ray Jarman says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 12:57 pm

      Not only that, they are the hired security for many if not all of the emirs of Hausa states like Zamfara, Kano, Yobe, et cetera. The Nigerian military is more than capable of eradicating the Fulani plague but Buhari is simply unwilling to use them. The tragedy is that the US and Britain provide millions of dollars and pound sterling through USAID and other organizations just to end up in Buhari’s and his minion’s pockets.

  3. FYI says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 11:30 am

    I’m afraid fraudulent francis,the “pope of the Ear”,the head of “the listening church” that never actually listens to catholics won’t ….be listening.

    This is a difficult time for Catholics with the marxist jesuit judas pope in office..and for those who doubt the truth about Mr Bergoglio,consider some of his statements.

    “It is a mistake for the church to hold on to old traditions or to have clear answers for everything”
    Pope francis
    {Ah yes!The fruit of the catastrophic vatican 2 that EMPTIED the Catholic churches:”old traditions” were what made Catholicism authentic and note the Moral Relativism of it being a “mistake” to “have clear answers for everything”:Did francis ever hear of the cathecism?}

    “If you say something I do not like I have to listen even more”
    Pope francis
    {Ok>Now hear this:hull-oh,Mr “pope of the Ear”,are you HEARING about the Nigerian catholics being massacred?What’s that-you are too busy NOT listening behind the HIGH WALLS of the vatican?Too busy pandering to islam,promoting globalism,defending mass islamic immigration and wilfully undermining catholicism,emptying the churches etc to notice?
    Maybe you need an ear piece so you can be the “pope of the Earpiece”

    Hull-oh francis?What?You don’t like what I’m saying ..?so LISTEN more..ya putz!

    • Kay says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 9:38 am

      While his flock and priests are being murdered, Francis is now further undoing the Church beginning in the Amazon.

  4. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 12:47 pm

    Islam is genocide, sometimes by a continuous drip drip drip of killings and kidnappings and intimidation, sometimes by mass exterminations. All in a quest to establish a social system that wipes out human freedom. If you are non-Muslim, or even if you are a Muslim who is not Muslim enough, then you are considered cattle to be used or killed once Muslim leadership becomes strong enough.

  5. James Lincoln says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    eduardo odraude,

    As they say, death by a thousand cuts…

  6. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    It’s all very sad. What’s worse is that very few sites, like Jihad Watch, put such news out…mainstream media doesn’t give a hoot!

  7. Fire Fox says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 3:52 am

    Mohammad practiced bloody invasions to rob, murder, terrorize, rape, and enslave unbelieving infidels.
    Allah said it is preferred that moslems do it.
    The Quran and hadiths state it all clearly.
    The Moslem Brotherhod declares it as their intent.
    Moslems daily perpetrate terrorist acts of murder declaring Allahu Ackbar.
    Imams announces the moslem duty to invade and subjugate us by hijrah.
    Mass killings of Christians occur constantly by mohammadans.
    Honor killings, FGM, and all sorts of perversions are carried out by moslems on other moslems.
    But the progressive politicians and media state it is hate speech to state the truth about Islam’s barbarism, expansionism, and supremacism.
    Islam is the eternal cancer of humanity.
    The fact that it is the friend of the leftists and globalists, says far more about the leftists and globalists than it does about the evil of Islam.

  8. Angemon says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 4:30 am

    Yes, appeal to the muslim president of the same ethnic group who is out to murder you. See how well that turns out…

  9. Giacomo Latta says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    This is the result of having religion as the focal point of what should be a focus on all Nigerians. I can’t imagine any country losing undescribed citizens in these numbers and not having leaders of all stripes sounding an alarm and their dissatisfaction with it. As it is, we only have people complaining about their own and others being indifferent.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 5:50 pm

      Christians are not doing this–this is not just religion in general, but Islam in particular.

  10. gravenimage says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    Nigeria: Catholics tell president “we are tired of burying our priests” as genocide of Christians continues
    ………………

    But Buhari isn’t–so nothing there will change.

  11. toomanyhobbies says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    and the media has no outrage against anyone except trump.

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