Posted on 09/20/2020 6:12:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Fr. Sam Ebute, of north-central Nigeria, tends to a flock that has been decimated by recent violence, as attacks on Christians have left 178 dead.
For the past seven months in southern Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeria, there have been incessant attacks on Christian communities, killing 178 people. In a statement by the Catholic bishops of Kaduna Province sent to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the bishops said that “dark clouds of violence have enveloped our land. Our country is in the firm grip of the grim reaper. In the last few years, the purveyors of this violence have taken over the land and placed our security forces on the defensive.”
Nigerian’s main challenge in the last 10 years was how to contain the terrorist group Boko Haram; two years ago, the military announced that it had degraded it. “But our joy was short lived as the story has progressively gotten far worse.”
“Today, almost the entire northern states are in the grip of these purveyors of violence and death. In the last three years, we have witnessed the relentless attacks and ransacking of entire communities by bandits in states like Benue, Kebbi, Plateau, Kaduna, Katsina, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto, Zamfara.”
“Thousands of lives have been lost to these bandits who have operated with relentless abandon,” the bishops charged, adding: “The ravages of Boko Haram, the herdsmen, kidnappers and the bandits have turned everyone into a victim.”
Fr. Sam Ebute is based in Kagoro, one of the affected communities, where he works as the Director of Promotion and Vocations for the Society of African Missions (SMA). He had to bury 21 of his parishioners who were killed in one of the most recent attacks.
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Democrats will bring that here
We have yet to grasp just how truly evil Democrats have become.
Try to imagine what life is like for this priest, may God the Father watch over him, may Christ the Son strengthen him, may the Paraclete comfort him. Pray for him and his flock...
“Another thing that is difficult to deal with is to preach forgiveness, reconciliation, peace and love to people whose means of livelihood has been snatched away from them, their prosperity ebbing away and destroyed as a result of these attacks.”
I’m sorry Father, the Church now has an Amazonian face.
It’s like????
No.
It IS.
That is because most of us just cannot wrap our minds around that level of evil and depravity.
Thank God.
They need to establish a Christian militia to defend against Jihad.
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