There is no identifying information as to the attackers in the report below, but my contacts in Nigeria inform me that in this case yet again they were Fulani herdsmen, that is, Islamic jihadis who are terrorizing the Christians of the land in efforts to establish an Islamic caliphate in West Africa.
“BREAKING: Terrorists Burn Catholic Priest To Ashes, Shoot Assistant In Niger Community, North Central Nigeria,” Sahara Reporters, January 15, 2023:
Fr. Achi was recently transferred to Madalla Parish in the state but was in Kafin-Koro, his former home parish when the incident occurred.
Bandits in the early hours of Sunday attacked St. Peters [sic] and Paul Catholic Church located along Daza Road, Kafin-Koro in the Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State and burnt the priest, Very Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi to ashes.
A source in the area told SaharaReporters that Fr. Achi’s assistant identified as Father Collins also sustained gunshot wounds and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
The source said Fr. Achi was recently transferred to Madalla Parish in the state but was in Kafin-Koro, his former home parish when the incident occurred.
Confirming the incident to SaharaReporters, the Niger Police Public Relations Officer DSP Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement, said the incident occurred at about 3 am on Sunday.
In a statement sent to SaharaReporters, Abiodun said, “On 15/01/2023 at about 0300hrs, armed bandits invaded the Parish residence of one Rev. Father Isaac Achi of St. Peters and Paul Catholic Church, along Daza road, Kafin-Koro, Paikoro LGA.
“Unfortunately, the bandits reportedly attempted to gain entrance into the residence, but seems difficult and set the house ablaze, while the said Rev. Father was burnt dead.
“A colleague of the Rev. Father identified as Father Collins was equally shot in the shoulder while trying to escape from the scene….
Linde B. says
The perpetrators of this demonic crime deserve to die in the same way. My deepest
sympathies to the family of Father Achi.
bill carr says
And yet they go on about Islamophobia, but never face up to all the atrocities committed in Islam’s name. If more people paid attention to them there would be much more than Islamopobia. But Western leaders cling to the myth that Islam is the ROP
This is what the revered Ayatollah Khomeini leader of the 1979 revolution and founder of the Iranian Islamic Republic said, straight fornm the horses mouth as they say.
“Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]….Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other ayahs and hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
-Ayatollah Khomeini
wpm says
Pope Francis is busy discussing global climate change with world leaders and worrying about collect evils of western civilization to worry about leaders of his flock being killed by jihadist because they are Catholic.
tim gallagher says
This appalling crime seems to be exactly following the play book that murderously violent Muslims have always used for the past 1400 years. How anyone still keeps on telling that lie about how islam is basically peaceful is beyond my comprehension. islam and peaceful behaviour are polar opposites.
somehistory says
The “world hates” those who follow Jesus Christ, just as He said it would. He also said, “The thief (satan the devil) comes to steal, kill and destroy.” The “fulani”…mozlums, are carrying out the devil’s desires by ‘stealing, killing and destroying.’
these mozlums are ‘children of the devil, doing their father’s desires.’
“the children of the devil are evident by this fact,” they have no love for their brothers….which people in Nigeria are in many cases, even with the differences in religion.
And the “world” ignores the murders because it “hates” Christians.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
You are, tragically, correct.
somehistory says
Thank you, James. I surely wish things were different.
somehistory says
Deutsche Welle
“Catholic priest burnt alive in northwest Nigeria attack”
“The motives of the armed attackers, known locally as “bandits,” were unknown. But Nigeria’s Muslim-dominated north is rife with jihadis who have been fighting to establish a caliphate for some 14 years.
The country’s north has also seen kidnappings for ransom and killings by armed gangs recently, amid growing fears that the February 25 presidential election might not be held in certain areas.
Hours later, bandits carried out a separate attack in the northern Katsina state, shooting a priest and taking hostage five people from a Christian home as they were preparing to attend Sunday mass at a church nearby.”
Violet says
Every place these Moslums park themselves we have chaos & violence. In my small city where shootings are a very rare occurence, a ME cafe opened…4 or 5 months later, someone was shot inside it…I know that’s nothing compared to EU, UK and Scandinavian countries but Lefty gov’s don’t give a dam about their own citizens.
Multiculturalism should be permitted to a small degree and only for people whose cultures don’t scream for the death of their hosts…