Boy Kills, At Least Three Kidnapped On “Palm Sunday Celebration”
A youngster boy has been killed and at least three persons kidnapped, such as a pastor, in an attack on a church
today April 8th, in northern Nigeria on “palm Sunday celebration” through suspected Fulani militants.
Pastor Gwadue Kwaghtyo was once leading an early morning prayer vigil at the church in the village of Akenawe in Benue State on Saturday when gunmen stormed in.
“As they were praying, they had been surrounded by the armed men,” reviews Salome Tor, Chairman of Logo LGA.
“They kidnapped three people, killed one boy and injured two people with a machete; they are now in the hospital.”
Some reports point out that four people had been kidnapped.
Pastor Gwadue Kwaghtyo is among these mentioned to have been taken.
The incident highlights the heightened dangers going through thousands and thousands of Christians all through Holy Week.
In many places, services are greater regular and prominent, and this can in addition expose believers to hostility.
Believers in Nigeria are specifically prone to violent attacks; final year, extra than 5,000 Christians misplaced their lives
for their belief – that’s more than anywhere else in the world combined.
The u . s . is sixth on the World Watch List.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident this week, eight students have been kidnapped.
Even as returning home from their faculty in the city of Awon, Kaduna State, on Tuesday.
It’s now not yet regarded who is responsible, nor whether or not any of the victims are Christians.
