Posted on 01/16/2023 6:34:17 PM PST by marshmallow
Father Achi served as the priest of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church. Tragically, his body was found among the charred parish building.
A Catholic priest burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria.
The body of Father Isaac Achi was found among the charred parish building of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church on Jan. 15, according to the Catholic Diocese of Minna, Nigeria.
He died after armed bandits attacked the priest’s residence in the village of Kafin Koro at 3 a.m. Another priest at the rectory, Father Collins Omeh, escaped the building, but sustained gunshot wounds and is being treated in a hospital.
Alhaji Sani Bello Abubakar, the governor of the Nigerian state of Niger where the attack took place, described the attack as “ungodly and inhumane” and directed the local security agencies to pursue the attackers, according to The Daily Post.
“This is a sad moment, for a priest to be killed in such a manner means that we are not all safe, these terrorists have lost it, and drastic action is needed to end this ongoing carnage,” Bello said.
Father Achi served as the parish priest of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church where he died. He was also the chairman of his local branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
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Given the concentration of hatred toward this man, he is a faithful martyr, whose death will cause the Church to grow. The devil is typically an agent of his own undoing.
May his soul rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him.
Well put.
Bandits? What did they steal?
Nigeria: Jihadis Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Shoot, Burn Priest Alive (Breitbart)
Rest in Paradise, Father Achi.
With Islam that does not appear to be the case.
Unfortunately, the World is full of bad people.
I hope they receive justice.
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