“Nigerian pastor and Calvin Seminary grad gunned down with his wife on their farm,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, June 5, 2020:
A Nigerian Christian pastor who graduated from Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan was gunned down along with his wife Monday while working on their farm in the Taraba State of Nigeria. The couples leave behind eight children ages 1 to 19.
The Rev. Emmanuel Saba Bileya and his wife, Juliana, who is said to be pregnant, were killed by gunmen who have yet to be identified, according to a statement released by the Hausa Christians Foundation.
“It was an attack on the pastor and his wife on their farm. While they were working on the farm, suddenly armed men came and opened fire on them, leading to the death of the pastor and his wife,” a spokesperson for the state police said in a statement shared by the foundation.
Bileya served as a pastor at a Christian Reformed Church in the Donga local government area. Bileya received a Master of Theology from Calvin in 2014 and served for the last five years at Veenstra Theological Seminary in Donga, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“In what is being noted as systematic direct war against Christianity in Nigeria, pastors, Christian leaders and seminarians are either being kidnapped or killed every week,” the Hausa Christians Foundation statement reads. “Christians in Nigeria have been the target of many attacks by the vicious Boko Haram jihadist Islamist terrorists, herdsmen attacks and many other kidnappings in recent times.”…
Nigeria ranks as the 12th-worst country in the world for Christian persecution on Open Doors USA’s 2020 World Watch List.
Estimates suggest that over 620 Christians have been killed in Nigeria by radical herdsmen and Islamic extremists so far in 2020 as thousands have been killed in recent years.
While the government has maintained that the escalation of violence is a result of ethnic conflicts between predominantly Christian farming and predominantly Muslim herding communities, advocates for Christians contend that religious elements are a factor.
AnnChristine Renoir says
This is happening in Nigeria everyday—-I cannot imagine how Christians can live in Nigeria with the constant threat of being killed by these vile savages with only a couple of brain cells!!!
CogitoErgoSum says
They were Christians so their lives didn’t matter to the Muslims.
Wellington says
Even worse than this, CES, their lives don’t matter to the world at large. One of the most “expendable” groups anywhere in the world, hardly worth a mention it seems, are black African Christians who are regularly targeted by followers of Mo’s warped creed for extermination.
The New York Times will not care about this, nor The Washington Post, nor The Guardian, nor the United Nations, and in particular its completely and cruelly farcical Human Rights Council, nor will that monumental nothing and hypocrite, Al Sharpton, nor the Western Left at large. Hell, even RINOs like Romney and the Bush family will overlook this.
Yep, this is a “nothing event.” Which in itself bespeaks to how pathetic, stupid, ignorant and upside down the human species often is.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Without Jihad Watch and other anti-jihad websites, I would have never known about this atrocity.
Kay says
There are Christian groups who aid these persecuted Christians, but I agree: Western Christians for the most part are woefully ignorant of what is happening to their brothers and sisters.
Rufolino says
It might raise awareness of this devastating situation for Christians if His Holiness the Pope spoke out with some clarity on the issue….
(But why am I wasting my breath ?)
James Lincoln says
Rufolino,
Pope Francis, by all indications, does not care about Christians – only about muslims.
He is a fake, a phony, and a fraud – and should be forcefully removed…
VRWC member77 says
Did these black lives matter?…….probably not to antifa.
eur says
non-muslim lives matter.
Wellington says
“non-muslim Iives matter.”
I agree, completely so, but they don’t matter to the following: 1) Muslims; 2) a plethora of innocuous non-Muslim people who never do anything to thwart evil; and 3) idiotic Western Leftists who, in full stupid mode, continue to make excuses for a religion which would eliminate them too after temporarily using them as an ally.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“…idiotic Western Leftists who, in full stupid mode, continue to make excuses for a religion which would eliminate them too after temporarily using them as an ally.”
If I remember correctly, I believe that that very thing happened just after the 1979 Iranian revolution…
Sun says
I deeply abhor Islam.
Wellington says
Seconded. Indeed, if one does not abhor Islam, then one is aligned at least implicitly with iniquity.
Yes, Islam is this awful. And almost as awful is the continued silence about Mo’s creed by non-Muslims, never mind the colossal fools like Pope Francis who actually extend approbation to Mohammedanism’s pure evil, which iniquities include death for apostasy and the sanctioning of rape.
European pagan says
R.i.p. ?
DHazard says
As far as I am aware the only truly persecuted Muslims are the Uighurs who have been functionally eradicated by the CCP. Almost everywhere else Muslims claim to be persecuted they are usually the instigators of the persecution. On top of that it is extremely easy to persecute a Muslim. I just did it.
gravenimage says
And note that the Uighurs were themselves waging violent Jihad against the Chinese.
Dolores says
Is there US agency involvement there? How did it start?
gravenimage says
Dolores, the Muslim in Western China are violent towards Infidels there simply because they are Infidels, and have been since long before China was Communist. And no–the US is not involved in this.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims murder Christian pastor and his wife while the couple was working on their farm
………….
Horrifying–this poor couple.
God, I hate Islam. And most of the West knows nothing about this genocide.
Ade Fegan says
Where are black live matter on this ?
(Tumbleweed and the sound of crickets)
As long as it’s muslims doing the killing, well that’s just dandy,
because they enjoy the PRIVILEGE of being a protected minority group too
Davi Green says
Us christians need to fight back if you let the muslims walk over us then they will never stop the killing you have to be strong
OLD GUY says
Tolerance in islam is non existent and murder is approved in the name of islam. And yet our leaders still defend it.
Yohaig says
RIP to Rev. Emmanuel Bileya and Juliana Bileya.
So sad to see all the Christian persecution taken place in the Northern part of Nigeria.
Christians working on their farm are no threat to them.
What are they afraid of?