70 Christians And A Minister Of God Reportedly ‘Murdered In Plateau’ By Cattle Headers

70 Christians have been  reportedly murdered  in Plateau State, including one pastor. The body count was said to have piled up after at least a half dozen attacks allegedly perpetrated by cattle herders. Herders  frequently terrorize Christian farmers in Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna, Taraba, Benue, among others.

The herdsmen regularly raid Christian villages opening up a hail of gunfire, burning homes and churches, and shooting their victims when they run outside to escape the fires.
“The jihadists, in their quest to eliminate Christians in Plateau State and their thirst for blood, have succeeded in killing Christians and burning their houses,” said Gyang, a local man whose full name is withheld to protect his safety.

The most deadly attack occurred on May 2 when herdsmen reportedly set fire to the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) located in Foron Town, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area (LGA), killing 27 Christians. The victims included Rev. Luka Gwom and a congregant named Pauline who was married just two weeks prior in the same church building.

The recent raids have all occurred in two areas of Plateau State: Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas. These frightening experiences have become nearly a weekly terror for Christians in the region. From April 25 to May 11, Gyang reported at least six attacks on more than eightvillages, some of them targeted more than once during that time span.
“We in Riyom and Barkin Ladi LGAs have been under siege and invasion. Lives have been lost almost every day, and [there is] no serious action from any quarter by the government. But we are still faithful to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” Gyang said as he recounted an attack that killed two members of the Rim Town community as they were returning from the burial of fellow Christians who were slaughtered in a Fulani raid that happened just days before.

Sadly, this recent string of assaults is nothing new for brothers and sisters in Christ in the Middle Belt region. In mid-March, Muslim Fulani cattle herders massacred 82 Christians in a village in Benue State, according to Nigerian news reports. However, the secular media and Nigerian authorities have been slow to acknowledge these events as Christian persecution.
“It is the longstanding issue over grazing rights and cattle rustling between Egba and Fulani people,” police spokesman Ezeala Austin said after the March attack.

Despite the historic tensions Austin cites, witnesses to the assaults often recount that the herdsmen chanted “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack, the Arabic saying, “God is Great,” which has become associated with jihadist Muslim terrorism. The herdsmen also continually and specifically target Christian villages.

One Plateau State government official vaguely referenced recent incidents of cattle rustling by predominantly-Christian tribes in Wase LGA in connection to the attacks of the past month, but reports suggest no linkage between the events. Wase LGA is located 160 miles away from Barkin Ladi and Riyom.

International Christian Concern’s Regional Manager of Africa, Mr. Troy Augustine, said: “The world should wake up to the forgotten persecution happening all over Nigeria’s Middle-Belt region. Extremist Muslim Fulani herders are regularly and consciously attacking Christian villages and slaughtering our brothers and sisters in Christ. I don’t know what else needs to be explained to acknowledge that these people are persecuted because of their faith”.















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Posted: at 17-05-2015 06:36 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

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Posted: at 17-05-2015 09:57 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

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Posted: at 17-05-2015 10:27 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Posted: at 17-05-2015 12:20 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

..... And somebody somewhere will say Islam is a religion of peace... Islam is the worst nightmare that has ever happened to humanity and mankind. Islam is the genesis of every problem in the world today.

Posted: at 17-05-2015 01:13 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

Useless Animals

Posted: at 17-05-2015 02:15 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

even a Christian led government couldn't protect the Christians from the Fulani attack, could a Fulani led government protects...

Posted: at 17-05-2015 03:10 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

even a Christian led government couldn't protect the Christians from the Fulani attack, could a Fulani led government protects...

Posted: at 17-05-2015 03:15 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

when God created the world, he did not create this foolish religion , this idiot prophet carry problem come spoil this good world

Posted: at 18-05-2015 02:44 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

If christens are waiting for God to come down and fight for them, then they are sick cuz God will not do to man what man can do for themselves. Let's 4go about living everything in the hands of God to judge and pick up our own arms. What is it self!!!?

Posted: at 18-05-2015 10:56 AM (8 years ago) | Hero