{UAH} Christianity CRACKDOWN: Crisis in Nigeria as THOUSANDS killed in 'pure GENOCIDE'

FAO: REV PAUL MUGERWA/ IKANOS/ SEKAJA/ PASTOR RICHARD MUKASA/ REV JOSEPH BYAMUGISHA/ DR GEORGES KOLOLO

What do you make of the grotesque events taking place in Nigeria? Why is the christian community completely silent about this holocaust taking place right before our very eyes? How many more people must be murdered by the muslim barbarians before the christian community wakes up? Why can/t the Roamn Catholic Pope Francis tell the muslims straight in their face stop it? Why, when a majority of the victims of the genocide are members of his church? Does he not have a pastoral responsibility and duty of love and care towards black Nigerians?: Why did he rush to Burma to console with the Muslims expelled by the Burmese military but he is completely silent about the suffering of the Nigerian Catholics, his own folk?

Bobby

Christianity CRACKDOWN: Crisis in Nigeria as THOUSANDS killed in 'pure GENOCIDE'

THOUSANDS of men, women and children have been killed in Nigeria in what the country's Christian community are condemning as "ethnic cleansing".

By JOEY MILLAR

PUBLISHED: 09:00, Sat, Jun 30, 2018 | UPDATED: 09:29, Sat, Jun 30, 2018

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Christian persecution: A bombing attack on a Catholic church in 2012

Last weekend 238 Christians were killed in a number of attacks by militia in Plateau State, a region in the heart of the country.

Campaigners are warning it is just the latest example of "pure genocide" in a country ravaged by religious division. 

A joint statement issued by the Christian Association of Nigeria said more than 6,000 Christian worshippers - "mostly children, women and the aged" - had already been killed this year.

They said: "There is no doubt that the sole purpose of these attacks is aimed at ethnic cleansing, land grabbing and forceful ejection of the Christian natives from their ancestral land and heritage.

"What is happening in Plateau state and other select states in Nigeria is pure genocide and must be stopped immediately."

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Christian persecution: Mourners carry coffins following an attack earlier this year

They said those responsible were being allowed to "go scot free" and said the Nigerian government was wrongly trying to paint the attacks as "farmers/herdsmen clashes".

The statement said: "How can it be a clash when one group is persistently attacking, killing, maiming, destroying and the other group is persistently being killed, maimed and their places of worship destroyed?

"How can it be a clash when the herdsmen are hunting farmers in their own villages/communities and farmers are running for their lives?"

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