A
group of Muslim youths, on Friday attacked St. Philips Catholic Parish, Baki
Iku, very close to Zuma Rock in Niger State. According to eyewitnesses, some
Catholics had gone to the church to pray and were attacked by the Muslims who
claimed that Friday is their day of prayer and that the Church only has right
to worship on Sundays.
Information
gathered from eyewitnesses said, they were destroying the Church properties:
the doors and the windows. Some soldiers managed to get there later but a lot
of harms have been done to the building, while the Christians ran away in
different directions to avoid being killed. It should be recalled that Alhaji
Kabiru Sokoto had on Christmas day four years ago (December 25 20111) detonated
a bomb that killed over 200 Catholics and passersby at St. Theresa Catholic
Church, Madalla, close to St. Philips that was destroyed. Rev Fr. Luka
Sylvester Gopep, the Vicar-General of the Diocese confirmed the incident.
He
said, "Sometime around 2pm, some Muslim youths in their hundreds left
their Mosque after their Friday Jumat prayer and rushed to the Church premises,
climbed the wall and destroyed everything in the Church: the windows, the
alter, musical instruments, the chapel. "The security man in the church
premises was beaten to pulp. Some women who were holding a prayer meeting were
chased away. The seminarian who is resident in the premises was also beaten up and
chased away." Just last week, Mrs Eunice Olawale Elisha, a mobile preacher
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was killed by some fanatical
Muslims in Kubwa, FCT.
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