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Beneath what looks like normal hubbub at Baba Alhamdu, these are no ordinary days. The school sits in the city center of Kano, where the terrorist group Boko Haram has struck repeatedly this year. City residents have been under a dusk-to-dawn curfew after the deadliest bombings Jan. 20 killed over 185.
The terrorist group has vowed to attack police, military, and Christian institutions. It has promised to kidnap Westerners—and has abducted a Brit, an Italian, and a German worker. Baba Alhamdu shares a walled compound with a medical clinic and one of the oldest churches in northern Nigeria, which began in 1933 under Sudan Interior Mission (SIM, now Serving In Mission). On the jihadi websites used by Boko Haram, the compound is named as a target....
Nigerian Nightmare wrote: "Violence and the threats—including a Christmas Day bombing at ... St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla ... that killed 44 ... where over 500 still walk over shattered glass to attend services under a repaired roof ("Many of our parishioners have left," church council chairman Sira Chukwu told me)." Please pray for these Christian faithful and the Christmas Day martyrs.
While every genuine born again Christian ought to pray for the people in Nigeria and those truly born again of the Holy Spirit we ought NEVER to pretend those committed to the teaching of the Catholic Religion are Christians but in great and desperate need of the Salvation.
"Violence and the threats—including a Christmas Day bombing at ... St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla ... that killed 44 ... where over 500 still walk over shattered glass to attend services under a repaired roof ("Many of our parishioners have left," church council chairman Sira Chukwu told me)."
Please pray for these Christian faithful and the Christmas Day martyrs.
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Dr. Steven J. Lawson | 10/11/2009
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