Posted on 12/30/2022 5:49:47 PM PST by marshmallow
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A Nigerian nun has described worsening attacks on Christians in Africa’s most populous nation, saying they’re part of an effort to Islamize the country under the hegemony of the largely Muslim Fulani ethnic group.
Sister Nkiru Esther Ezedinachi of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Lord Jesus was speaking in exclusive comments to Crux in the wake of a new report which, once again, highlighted Nigeria as one of the worst places on earth to be a Christian.
Ezedinachi also blamed the Vatican for seeming to look the other way as the kidnappings and killings continue unabated.
“Again, many clergymen act as if nothing is happening, except a few of them. Many of us here also wonder why the Vatican and Canterbury are keeping so quiet about what is happening in Nigeria – the abduction and killing of religious people.”
The report, published by the Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need, notes that over 100 priests and religious sisters were kidnapped, arrested or killed in 2022.
“At least 12 priests and five religious sisters were murdered during 2022 while fulfilling their mission,” the report concludes.
The report said “Nigeria was the country with the highest number of victims, with four priests killed,” although Mexico recorded three priests killed and two were murdered in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In addition, five religious sisters were murdered: Luisa Dell’Orto in Haiti; Sisters Mary Daniel Abut and Regina Roba in South Sudan; Sister Mari de Coppi in Mozambique; and Sister Marie-Sylvie Vakatsuraki, killed in October in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Besides the killings, scores of priests and religious were also kidnapped, with a total of 42 priests kidnapped in different countries in 2022.
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The President of the United States hates the United States and the Vicar of Christ hates the Catholic Church.
Strange times.
Time to turn plowshares into swords.
The pope doesn’t care about his flock. His job is to “fundamentally transform” the church in to another marxist tool to destroy western civilization.
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