Islamo-Facist Watch: "NIGERIA: Islamists Gun Down Six Christians at Midnight Mass Then Torch the Church"

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NIGERIA: Islamists Gun Down Six Christians at Midnight Mass Then Torch the Church

By Jim Hoft on Tuesday,
December 25, 2012,

Christmas in Nigeria.

Boko Haram Islamists carried out a series of attacks on Christians this time last year. (BBC)

Gunmen shot six Christians dead including the pastor at a Midnight Mass Christmas celebration this morning. They then torched the church.

The AFP reported, via Religion of Peace:

Gunmen attacked a church in northern Nigeria during a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, killing six people including the pastor, before setting the building ablaze, residents and police said Tuesday.

Gunmen killed six people attending midnight mass at a church in northern Nigeria on Christmas Eve, police and residents confirmed on Tuesday.

"A group of gunmen came into the village at midnight and went straight to the church... they opened fire on them, killing the pastor and five worshippers. They then set fire to the church," said Usman Mansir, resident of Peri village, near Potiskum, the economic capital of Yobe state.

Mansir specified that a branch of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) was the congregation that was targeted.

A senior police official in Yobe confirmed the details to AFP, but declined to be named.

Boko Haram Islamists have carried out several attacks in Yobe, which borders the state of Maiduguri, where the insurgent group is based.

Nigerian Christians Undeterred by Islamo-Fascism

A few asides. First, where is the U.S. State Department? Where is the national media? Where is MSNBC, CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, or NBC? Second, 18 million Anglicans live in Nigeria and they are old school, 1662 Prayer Book Christians.   There are also other Christians under attack.  These ruthless bigots don't draw the distinctions.  Third, where is the U.N.?  Fourth, where is the international court in the Hague?  Fifth,  we continue to monitor these depraved Islamo-fascists and murderers.   These are murders or homocides in the first degree--with premeditation, malice aforethought, ill will, spite, and the calculating and specific formation of "intent," the necessary elements to prosecute these criminals. These are unjustiable and genocidal homocides.

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Nigerian Christians undeterred by violent attacks on churches

Posted on May 9, 2012 by nazmissionsi

Christians in Northern Nigeria are refusing to let the threat of attack keep them away from Sunday services as security is stepped up after a spate of deadly bombings.

Going to church on a Sunday has become a highly dangerous activity for Nigerian Christians, who are being targeted by suspected Boko Haram militants. The Islamist group in March declared“war” on Christians, and since then a number of church attacks have left dozens dead.

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Lagos, Nigeria: Radical Islamists Murder (1st Degree Homocides) 67 Over Effort to Implement Sharia Law

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At least 67 killed in overnight attacks across Yobe

05/11/2011 17:19:00

  

Nigeria has been plagued by series of violence in recent times.

LAGOS, - At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in northeast Nigeria overnight, officials said Saturday, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead.


A radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram claimed responsibility Saturday for the attacks, which represent the most coordinated and wide-ranging assault yet in their increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government. The sect, which wants the strict implementation of Shariah law across the nation of more than 160 million people, promised to carry out more attacks.

The fighting centered around Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, Nigerian Red Cross official Ibrahim Bulama said. The attack started Friday with a car bomb exploding outside a three-story building used as a military office and barracks in the city, with many uniformed security agents dying in the blast, Bulama said.

Gunmen then went through the town, blowing up a First Bank PLC branch and attacking at least three police stations and some churches, leaving them in rubble, he said. Gunfire continued through the night and gunmen raided the village of Potiskum near the capital as well, witnesses said, leaving at least two people dead there.

On Saturday morning, people began hesitantly leaving their homes, seeing the destruction left behind, including military and police vehicles burned by the gunmen, with the burned corpses of the drivers who died in their seats.

Bulama spoke to The Associated Press by telephone Saturday morning from a common Muslim burial ground in the city as his family buried a relative and friend, a police officer who died after suffering a gunshot wound to the head in the fighting.

"There's that fear that something might possibly happen again," he said.

State government officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment Saturday.

The attacks around Damaturu came after four separate bombings struck Maiduguri, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east. One blast detonated around noon outside the El-Kanemi Theological College where parents had gathered. Police said others had entered the college grounds to attend Friday prayers at a mosque located on its campus.

Witnesses who spoke to the AP said they saw ambulances carry away at least six wounded people from the site. Another bombing alongside a road in Maiduguri killed four people, local police commissioner Simeon Midenda said.

A short time later, suicide bombers driving a black SUV attempted to enter a base for the military unit charged with protecting the city from Boko Haram fighters, military spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh Mohammed said. The SUV couldn't enter the gate and the explosives were detonated outside of the base, which damaged several buildings in the military's compound, Mohammed said.

Mohammed said blasts occurred at three other places in Maiduguri besides the base, with no one being killed. However, government officials routinely downplay such attacks in Nigeria over political considerations.

On Saturday, a Boko Haram spokesman claimed responsibility for the attacks in an interview with The Daily Trust, the newspaper of record across Nigeria's Muslim north. A Boko Haram spokesman using the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa promised that "more attacks are on the way."

"We will continue attacking federal government formations until security forces stop their excesses on our members and vulnerable civilians," the spokesman said.

His comments come as human rights activists say soldiers have beaten and killed civilians while trying to search for the sect in Maiduguri.

Boko Haram's attacks occurred ahead of Eid al-Adha, or the feast of sacrifice, when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. Police elsewhere in the country had warned of violence ahead of the celebration in Nigeria, a country largely split between a Christian south and a Muslim north. On Wednesday, police in Maiduguri had said they broke up a plot to bomb the city over the holiday.

Boko Haram apparently has split into three factions, increasing the danger for Nigeria, the AP has learned. One faction remains moderate and welcomes an end to the violence, another wants a peace agreement with rewards similar to those offered to a different militant group in 2009.

The third faction, though, refuses to negotiate and remains the most radical. This faction is in contact with al-Qaida's North Africa branch and likely the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabab, a diplomat said on condition of anonymity according to embassy orders.

That sect likely is responsible for the increasingly violent and sophisticated attacks carried out in the sect's name. In August, Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria's capital, which killed 24 people and left another 116 wounded.

Rowan Watch (ABC): ‘We need your vision’ Williams tells Congolese and Kenyans

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‘We need your vision’ Williams tells Congolese and Kenyans

by Ed Beavan

Biretta action: Dr Williams with (left to right): the Assistant Bishop of Kinshasa, the Rt Revd Molanga Botola; the Bishop of Kisangani, the Rt Revd Funga Botolome; and the Bishop of Aru, the Rt Revd George Titre Ande LAMBETH PALACE

THE Archbishop of Canterbury returned to the UK on Monday, after a ten-day visit to Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); he described the work of the Anglican Church in both countries as “inspiring”. Dr Williams started the trip in Kenya, where he joined the Arch­bishop of the province, Dr Eliud Wabukala, in a eucharist to celebrate the 50th annivers­ary of the diocese of Nakuru. In his sermon at the service, Dr Williams urged Christians to be courageous when facing opposition, and praised the courage of Chris­tians in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Pakis­tan, Egypt, and Sudan, who contin­ued to show “fearlessness in the face of terrible danger”. The two Archbishops also laid the foundation stone on the site of the first Anglican University in Kenya, at Kanyuambora. Dr Williams saw at first hand some of the transforming work being done by Holy Trinity, Kibera, which is situated in one of Africa’s largest slums. It has a population of 700,000, in an area of 600 acres. He toured several church initiatives there, including a tailoring project for vulnerable women and a chil­dren’s homework club. He described the work as “inspiring”. He also visited a sustainable-development project in a village in the diocese of Machakos, which has been set up in partnership with CMS Africa; it processes cow dung to create bio-gas. Dr Williams had a meeting with the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and discussed the place of the Church in promoting community development. Both Archbishops described the visit as “a joyful and fruitful” exper­ience, which “had strengthened the historic fellowship between our two provinces”. After five days in Kenya, Dr Wil­liams flew on to the DRC for a pastoral visit. He arrived in Bunia in the north-east of the country, where he visited the AGAPE church or­ganisation, which helps to reunite with their families young men who had been taken from school to join the militia. In Boga, the birthplace of the Church of the Province of Congo, Dr Wil­liams took part in a celebration at St Apolo Cathedral, and heard the stories of pygmies who had been driven from their homes. He also met women who had been raped by the militia in the civil war, and heard how the Anglican Church in Congo has established an Asso­ciation of Women, working in col­lab­oration with the Mothers’ Union, to cam­paign against sexual violence and to offer practical help to sur­vivors. The Archbishop of Congo, the Rt Revd Henri Isingoma, described Dr Williams’s visit as “a historical occasion”. His wife, Musiga, said that it put Congo “on the map”, and helped to give the Church there a voice. Dr Williams said the work of the Anglican Church in Congo which he experienced was “intensely moving and inspiring. This is a Church which really makes a difference for the most damaged and vulnerable people, in a society emerging — still precariously — from a period of terrible collective trauma. They need encouragement and support — but we need their vision and compassion even more.” The British Ambassador to the DRC, Neil Wigan, accompanied the Archbishop. He praised the Anglican Church for its “amazing” work in the country, and said that, where “often the State has ceased to exist, the Church has still been there, provid­ing education and social services. “And the Church plays a role in reconciliation and standards in public life, encouraging politicians to behave and leaders to take their responsibilities seriously. The An­glican Church is very much part of that tradition.”