2012-01-10 15:15:22

Attacks on Christians in Nigeria continue


(January 10, 2012) Thirty more people died in Nigeria over the weekend, the latest victims in a wave of anti-Christian violence that claimed more than three dozen lives on Christmas Day. Kyrke-Smith the U.K. director for the charity group ‘Aid to the Church in Need’ has added his voice in condemning the violence. His remarks came after last weekend's episode of violence in which 30 people died in anti-Christian attacks in Adamawa State, in the northeast. Previously there were five separate bomb attacks across Nigeria on Christmas Day, killing at least 40 people. The group behind the attacks is believed to be the Islamist group Boko Haram, who have threatened further violence if Christians and animists do not leave the predominantly Muslim north. There have been warnings of a civil war, along with reports of thousands of Christians and Animists fleeing the north of Nigeria. Last week, Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja told Aid to the Church in Need that after the attacks over Christmas many Muslims wrote to him expressing their sympathy and that eight imams visited him to express condolences. Pope Benedict XVI in his annual address to the ambassadors to the Holy See on Monday, strongly condemned the attacks on churches on Christmas Day in Nigeria. The Holy Father expressed his closeness with the Christian community and all those affected by the violence.







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