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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday debunked a foreign media report that some pastors were found selling some captured Muslim children in the recent sectarian crisis in Jos, Plateau state.
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Nigerian Muslims are not at logger-heads with their Christian counterparts, the Secretary-General of Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and Seriki and Baba Adinni of Egbaland, Dr. Abdullateef Adegbite said yesterday.
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Everyone has become frozen in a sea of fear. If you are Muslim, you fear what Christians will say; and if you are Christian, you fear what Muslims will say. And even worse, both fear that their coreligionists will think they have let them and their faith down. But if we really want solve our problems, we should be mature and objective enough to apportion blame where it properly belongs without fear of anything. When news of the Jos crisis filtered out, one could have said what John Pilger said of Palestine during the recent Israeli offensive: “A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders.” In private, all leaders complain bitterly; but in public they try to outdo each other in being politically correct.
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The attempt by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the Anambra State election, Dr. Chris Ngige, to return to Government House, yesterday suffered a setback as a group, Human Rights Guard, asked Pope Benedict XVI to prevail on Catholics not to vote for him during Saturday’s poll.
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Christian leaders in Nigeria have called on Islamic clerics to educate their youths on the dangers of violence.
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Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has said that those displaced as a result of the recent violence in Jos, Plateau State, must be provided with adequate emergency shelter while efforts are being made to provide permanent solution to their housing problem.
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Al-Qaida offers to arm and train Nigerian Muslims
Washington Post According to a state police commissioner, skirmishes began after Muslim youths set a Christian church ablaze, but Muslim leaders denied that. … North Africa Qaeda offers to help Nigerian MuslimsReuters South Africa all 129 news articles » |
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Just as normalcy is returning to Jos and environs after religious crisis in Plateau State, the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) and a mosque at the Government Science Secondary School in Gombe were yesterday torched by youths.
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Bishop Leonard Umunna, General Overseer, Bible Life Church, in an interview session with newsmen identified failure of leadership as the greatest set-back Nigeria has suffered over the years, insisting that the glorification of evildoers has since set the nation on a collision course with God, hence the myriad of woes.
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A federal lawmaker in the House of Representatives, James Bitachi, representing Bosso/Paikoro federal constituency of Niger State has constructed a mosque for the people of his constituency.
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The National Coordinator of the global wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Diaspora, Dr. Mishak Nnanta, has strongly condemned the wanton killing of Igbos in the North by Islamic extremists at the least provocation, with a stern warning to respond accordingly in the event of further unprovoked attack.
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An update received by the Church of the Brethren’s Global Mission
Partnerships staff from the pastor of an EYN congregation in Jos, included
information that two ministers in EYN have been killed: Shadrach Dzarma,
a student at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria; and Obidah Hildi,
an evangelist working in Bukuru, a town close to Jos.
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What really happened in Jos, the Plateau State capital on Sunday, January 17 and the days that followed? Was it a religious crisis? Was it an ethnic crisis? Was it a communal crisis? Was it a political crisis? Was it an economic crisis? What really happened?
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Sequel to the orgy of sectarian violence that recently engulfed Jos, with over 150 corpses reportedly found in wells and pits, the Plateau State Police Command has released the official casualty figures: 326 deaths in all. So far, 313 arrests have been made, of which 139 have been transferred to the Force Headquarters in Abuja, apparently because of congestion in the Jos prison.
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Ethiopian News Journal US-based Human Rights Watch put the number of Christian dead at 65. Official police figures were significantly lower with 35 people dead, 40 injured and 168 … Nigeria: After the Jos Blood BathAllAfrica.com Voice of the Martyrs AlertCrosswalk.com MCC plans response to violence in NigeriaReliefWeb (press release) Washington Times (blog) -Right Side News -WIBW all 408 news articles » |
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Lagos, Nigeria – Chilling text messages urged both Christians and Muslims to commit violence during rioting that left more than 300 people dead, a human rights organization said Wednesday, with one message reading: “Kill them before they kill you.
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The South South Zone of the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria has provided micro credit facilities to 35 of its members.
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The Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria, YOUTH CAN, in Plateau State has faulted the mass burial given to supposed Muslim victims of the crisis in the state capital, saying some of them could be Christians.
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Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria are accusing each other of starting the recent clashes in which hundreds of people were killed in and around the city of Jos in Plateau state. Nigerian police said on Tuesday that at least 326 people have died in the violence in Plateau. However, estimates from medical and aid workers and religious and community leaders put the toll at more than 550. Both Christians and Muslims seem to agree that a dispute over a house in a mainly Christian district of Jos sparked the unrest. The house was destroyed in the religious violence of 2008 and its Muslim owner started to rebuild it on January 17. What the…
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Police in Nigeria’s central Plateau state have arrested 313 suspects over last week’s inter-religious violence that killed nearly 500 people, a spokesman said on Monday. AFP – Police in Nigeria’s central Plateau state have arrested 313 suspects over last