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Nigeria: Muslims murder pastor’s wife but still take ransom

Oct 2, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Jihadists in Nigeria continue to savage the Christian community. This is an ongoing genocide, perpetrated amid lies that the violence has nothing to do with Islam. Recently, Fulani jihadists (often referenced as “herdsmen”) “tried to kill Reverend Ishaku Katung of the Evangelical Church Winning All. On that night, they broke into the church premises and attacked the sleeping husband and wife. Rev. Katung was able to escape, but was shot. His wife, Esther Ishaku Katung, did not make it away, and was taken by the attackers.”

The jihadists then used Esther Ishaku Katung to get a ransom. Her family took two weeks to raise the ransom, and then “found her body in the bushes.” She was brutally murdered days before the ransom was paid out: 253,871 Nigerian naira, this is, 700 US dollars.

Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484: “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”

“Suspected Fulani Militants Kill Pastor’s Wife, but Still Take Ransom,” International Christian Concern, September 28, 2019:

09/28/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On September 14, suspected Fulani militants attacked the village of Bagoma in Kaduna State, Nigeria. During the attack, the militants tried to kill Rev. Ishaku Katung of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA). On that night, they broke into the church premises and attacked the sleeping husband and wife. Rev. Katung was able to escape, but was shot. His wife, Esther Ishaku Katung, did not make it away, and was taken by the attackers.

Over the next two weeks, the militants told the family that if they did not receive a ransom, that they would kill her. It took the family two weeks to raise nearly $700 to pay the ransom. After they paid it, they found her body in the bushes. She had been killed by her kidnappers days before receiving the ransom. This means that they killed her and still demanded the money.

“Information we got from some of the kidnapped victims who escaped from the herdsmen’s enclave shows that Esther Katung and two other victims had escaped from the herdsmen’s captivity, but she was recaptured by them,” Pastor Hayab told Morning Star News. “She attempted to escape with two others after they were kidnapped by the herdsmen; this infuriated the herdsmen, leading them to kill her. They broke her legs in order to prevent her from escaping and smashed her head too. This led to her death.”…..

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Filed Under: Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, Nigeria Tagged With: Esther Ishaku Katung, Evangelical Church Winning All, Fulani jihadists, Rev. Ishaku Katung


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  1. Antiislamicman says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    Muslims keep telling me Islam means peace. So peace in Islam means killing people that don’t believe in the false prophet Muhammad

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 2:06 pm

      Antiislamicman,

      Muslims believe that peace will come – after everyone submits to Islam…

      • Ewanda says

        Oct 2, 2019 at 11:06 pm

        Peace will only come when the last human being is dead because there will always be an Islamic reason to slaughter THE OTHER.
        JESUS brought the blueprint for the survival of humankind. BIG MO professed the blueprint for LAST MAN STANDING … and that’s where we are today … unless a majority of people get a backbone and abandon POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

    • Joss says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 4:07 am

      To quote Churchill, “The peace of the graveyard.”

  2. Trick_or_Treat says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    The very latest in myriad uplifting and edifying stories of love, mercy and compassion of islam around the world.
    DOGS! Their days are numbered.

  3. Ray Jarman says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    Why would anyone trust these creatures when they demand ransom since Muhammad was given permission to commit perfidy. I have witnesses these evil creatures when they escorted an emir from one of the northern states of Nigeria and it was so easy to see the evil and hatred in their eyes as they stood outside of the embassy in Abuja 2004. At the time, some of the local staff in the embassy seemed to look upon them as hero warriors and I were I still working there, I would ask them about their feelings concerning these animals now.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 10:19 pm

      The family was desperate. I think it was more their wanting to see their loved one returned safely than it is was trust of Jihadists that led them to raise the money and pay.

  4. somehistory says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    It is the way of kidnappers around the world to kill those they kidnap and still demand the ransom. It has been that way from the start. Ransoms are paid and the victim’s family…also victims of the criminals…find out that their loved one was killed before the money was delivered. Many times, the victim is killed before the ransom is even demanded. The “proof” that the victim is still alive is prepared in advance of the killing and the demands.

    These moslims have been given an “excuse” for the murder: “infuriated the herdsmen, leading them to kill her”
    This implies that had she not attempted an escape, she would have been allowed to go home after the ransom was paid. The only way victims are released is when the kidnappers plan another kidnapping of the same person in the future.
    The poor woman was effectively dead when she was captured by these sons of demons.

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    I can not believe that Christ wanted his followers to be doormats on which others could wipe their feet. Christ may have laid down His own life but it was done FOR OTHERS so that those whom He loved may LIVE. He was the Sacrificial Lamb but that does not mean that all of His followers are to become sheep for the slaughter. Yes, a Christian should turn the other cheek and be slow to anger but MURDER is a sin that cries out to God for justice. When Christ warned us that the measure we use to judge others will also be used to judge ourselves I think He had in mind the question of justice. Anyone who takes the life of another person should be liable to having his own life taken as a punishment. These killers should be tracked down, given a fair trial and, if found guilty, be executed as quickly as possible. Those who slaughter should be liable to being slaughtered themselves … and I feel no guilt whatsoever in saying so. Damn Islam to Hell!

    • Lilith Wept says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 6:08 pm

      I agree with you! And I don’t think God or Christ would want us to be doormats to the extent that His message would be obliterated ……
      And His children slaughtered when it’s preventable.

  6. Angemon says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 4:46 pm

    This means that they killed her and still demanded the money.

    Imagine my surprise…

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 10:20 pm

    Nigeria: Muslims murder pastor’s wife but still take ransom
    ………………….

    This poor woman and her family.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 3:49 am

      +1, Ditto…

      Oh God, how I f**king hate islam !

  8. Raleigh Epp says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 9:03 am

    Does the Canadian Government understand this reality about Nigeria? Now they are trying to deport a Christian family from Welland, Ontario for no reason! Our Immigration Minister part of the Muslim Brotherhood!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 12:33 am

      Yes–this is horrifying.

  9. Ewanda says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 10:47 am

    More unfortunately for us is that in the upcoming federal election, every party has embraced Islam – from accepting and encouraging Islamic candidates (as in the Islamic Liberal candidate selected to run against Jody Wilson-Raybould), to Andrew Scheer’s party, to Elizabeth May’s Green Party, to Singh’s NDP’s and even surprisingly Max Bernier’s People’s Party. All have embraced Muslims, thinking that the people are true representatives of that horrific Ideology that is here to replace our freedoms with imposed Sharia. So many talkshow hosts across Canada are against Bill 21 not realizing that the Islamic dress is specifically imposed to protect and separate the believing women during jihad attacks on Western women.

  10. Battle says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 12:26 am

    Mother Mary, Pray for us.

  11. Battle says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 12:44 am

    What a horrible abduction and death this poor woman had to face. The murders’ faith in stealing and murdering makes them pieces of excrement for human beings. Their faith is to steal and murder.

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