Posted on 09/11/2004 12:32:23 AM PDT by miltonim
July 18, 2002 CHRISTIANS ATTACKED AND KILLED BY ISLAMIC FANATICS IN NIGERIA
We have received an urgent appeal for our prayers from Bishop Ben Kwashi of Jos following an escalation of violence against Christians in Nigeria. We would ask you to pray for the Church in Nigeria and if you have time, to write to your Congressperson raising your concerns.
Thank you
Bishop Ben writes: "Dear Brothers and Sisters, Peace and greetings. We are asking for prayers for strength, for courage, for protection, for help from God. Only God can help now. In September I asked for your prayers for Jos and for Plateau state. At that time I said that Satan had unleashed hell on us. I was wrong. What he did then was to release only a sting from hell. Now we are having some form of blast from hell. As in Sudan, the church in these areas continues to be lively and fervent in faith in spite of their hardships. Our faith in our suffering is producing much fruit. Even now the congregations that are barely one month old are still kicking and bouncing and zealous for Christ. The aim of the devil is to discourage us and to scare us away from Jesus, but quite painfully we are losing material possessions and hanging on to Jesus alone. In this life we do not have a permanent place here.
"We are facing a new Muslim onslaught. Terror has been released on the majority Christian population of the Plateau. As in Sudan, the church in these areas continues to be lively and fervent in faith in spite of their hardships. Our faith in our suffering is producing much fruit. Even now the congregations that are barely a month old are still zealous for Christ. We are losing material possessions and hanging on to Jesus alone.
"May this letter encourage you as we look out for God's good out of this evil situation. Our faith and absolute trust is in the Lord Jesus."
LATEST NEWS:
Christians in the Plateau State of central Nigeria have been killed and forced from their land by extremist Islamic militants.
Attacks have been mounted against Christians in the area surrounding Jos, leaving several dead and many more wounded and displaced.
Christians in a village outside Jos were roused from sleep by church bells at 5am on a morning at the end of June. When they began making their way to church thinking it was the bell for morning prayers, they were ambushed by Islamic militants from the Hausa and Fulani tribes. Four were killed and 20 injured.
During the last three weeks of June, several churches were burned, shops and homes looted and Christian property destroyed in Yelwa Shendam. Christians were chased out of the town and were forced to take refuge in Jos.
In a separate incident in Wase, Christians were attacked and killed and no church building was left standing. Farmland and crops were destroyed and all the Christians there were forced to flee to Langtan.
Sporadic attacks have also been reported in Berakin Ladi, Vom and Miango, leaving several dead in each attack.
At least a thousand Christians are refugees scattered between Mban, Pil and Langtan, and Christian leaders in the area have organised refugee camps and have recorded evidence of the atrocities.
CSW calls on the Nigerian Government to intervene with sufficient security forces to end these attacks on innocent people.
CSW also calls on local Muslim leaders to be a voice of moderation when confronted by violent provocateurs from outside the region.
NOTES:
Although Nigeria is by constitution a secular state, Muslims in power in the North have been implementing Shari'ah law and seeking to apply it to Christians.
Christians in Northern cities such as Kaduna have, in the past two years, been attacked and thousands have been killed and their homes destroyed. Until recently, Jos and its surrounding areas were a relatively quiet area where Christians lived side by side with their Muslim neighbors.
ACTION:
PRAYER REQUESTS:
Our Prayers are urgently requested for:-
* The Government, at present concentrating on primaries of local and state elections, that it will intervene strongly with sufficient security forces to end these savage attacks
* God to intervene to bring to an end this ugly trend towards aggressive religious/political violence in Plateau state
* Relief started by the church, in the form of food, clothing, provisions and supplies, to be readily available & reach the refugees soon
* Many to come to personal faith, as the refugee camps become places of revival and missionary outreach
* God to bring good out of evil
* Strength, courage, and protection for Christians in the Jos area, and especially for Bishop Ben Kwashi and his team of ministers as they work
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Leftists? Is our President a Leftist to you? You seem like you hate our President and his message, why vote for him?
A VIBRANT FAITH
“Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions.”
- President Bush, October 11, 2002
A Beautiful Mosque
For half a century, this beautiful mosque has served as a place of worship for Muslims and has helped to advance understanding between people of different faiths. Millions of our fellow Americans practice the Muslim faith. They lead lives of honesty and justice and compassion.
- President Bush, December 5th, 2002
President Bush's Roundtable with Muslim Leaders -
"All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith -- face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate."
- President Bush,
September 10th, 2002
ISLAM IS LOVE
“Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.”
- President Bush, September 10, 2002
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“The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.”
- President Bush, June 1, 2002
A WAR AGAINST EVIL
“All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.”
- President Bush, November 6, 2001
NOT AT WAR AGAINST ISLAM
“Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people.”
- President Bush, January 5, 2002
ISLAM BENEFITS THE WORLD
“That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements.”
- President Bush, November 19, 2001
ISLAM IS OF CHARITY
“The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur’an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.”
- President Bush, November 15, 2001
BUSH SUPPORTS ALL FAITHS
"We respect people of all faiths and welcome the free practice of religion; our enemy wants to dictate how to think and how to worship even to their fellow Muslims."
- President Bush, November 8, 2001
AMERICA REJECTS BIGOTRY
“We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith… America values and welcomes peaceful people of all faiths -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and many others.”
- President Bush, April 30, 2002
AMERICA’S MUSLIMS
“There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know -- that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love and compassion.”
- President Bush, September 28, 2001
AMERICA DOES NOT FIGHT RELIGIONS
“Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.”
- President Bush, September 27, 2001
TERRORISTS HIJACKING ISLAM
“The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends.”
- President Bush, September 20, 2001
ISLAM IS PEACE
“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.”
- President Bush, September 17, 2001
WAR ON TERROR, NOT MUSLIMS
“I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it a war against Arabs. It's a war against evil people who conduct crimes against innocent people.”
- President Bush, September 19, 2001
I, as an American citizen, can state my opinion that radical islamists are engaged in a holy war against anyone that is not a radical islamist and that we had best take that fact to heart.
Preident Bush, I am confident, knows this fact as well. He, on the other hand, cannot say so without compromising his ability to govern and to deal with other world leaders (and their citizens).
And i as an American Citizen defend everything our President has said and i'm sorry you think our President is a liar.
Further, i'm sorry he does not defend your radical ideology. I believe in every single word our President has said, so please live on in your fantasy land, while he gets things done, by words and deeds.
Anyone who believes everything any politician says is seriously deluded.
President Bush is a good man, and I'll happily vote for him (again), but he IS, after all, a politician. Politics is the art of the possible.
I'm glad, but i personally support almost 100% of every word that "lying politican" [according to you] has to say.
Honesty to me.. just a politican to you.
FRiend, to me, politician = professional liar.
However, some are better than others. Bush is in the top 5% of all politicians I have ever seen in terms of his honesty and forthrightness. I am originally from a state (Louisiana) that set the standard for crooked politicians, so I may be a bit jaded.
I took a second to look at your bio, so I think I see what is bugging you; so, for the record: I don't care who or what you (or anybody else)worship, who or what you sleep with, what you say, read, hear, etc. etc.
You may think my politics are radical, but I didn't declare this a Jihad - the Islamofacists did. If people, of any race, creed, color, religion, age, or sexual orientation want to be left alone to live peaceably with their neighbors, then I am all for that. If you want to cause distruction of the innocent because they don't follow your idea of the "true Religion" - THEN one is a radical that needs to be killed before they can kill us.
We (western nations) don't view this as a Holy War - the radical islamists do. We ignore this fact to our extreme peril.
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