From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso
Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 5:30 PM
Subject: [Nigeria360::Live] Massacre in Nigerian Church
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15 Christians were shot inside a church yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks in the northeastern part of the country. The church is in Chibok local government in Borno state, the cited operational headquarters of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram.
Mohammed Kana of the National Emergency Management Agency, said that it was so violent that "Some of the people had their throats slit." The sect is suspected in the attack.
USAfrica's special report a week earlier titled 'Pastor, deacon, 14 others killed at Christmas church services in Nigeria by radical lslamists' noted The fears and concerns of many Nigerian christians over a potential attack in northern Nigeria during this year's christmas services have become real with the killing of about 15 of their fellow adherents at 2 churches.
"It has really been terrible," said Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, the Archbishop of Jos. "We cannot be overcome by fear and the violence of these evil people", he told Vatican Radio that the Christians of Nigeria will persevere.
"Their aim is to succeed to destroy the Christian faith, and we are convinced this is not possible, because our faith is a gift from God," he said.
During the Christmas eve attacks, 6 persons were killed and several injured at the Church of Christ in Nations in Potiskum, in Yobe State. The attackers shot the pastor and set the house of worship on fire during the Christmas eve session.
At the embattled city of Maiduguri, in Borno state where Boko Haram sect has its biggest base, a church deacon and 5 worshipers at the First Baptist Church were murdered.
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned those attacks on churches "where savage acts of terrorism continue to reap victims, particularly among Christians."
In 2011, the group Boko Haram and its splinter groups launched pre-Christmas and Christmas Day attacks in northern and central Nigeria last year killed at least 60 christians, dramatizing the incapacity of the federal government led by President Goodluck Jonathan to deal with the domestic terror and religious violence.
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