In the United States, we are very sheltered from this kind of persecution. PLEASE PRAY for the persecuted church. They are our family members. They are losing their lives because of following Christ. Let's honor their sacrifice by our willingness to pray and live FULLY for CHRIST in the freedom we are blessed with in America.
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Posted on Mar 8, 2010 by Lekan Otufodunrin/Compass Direct News
LAGOS, Nigeria (BP)--Hundreds of Christians were murdered in an overnight massacre by ethnic Fulani Muslims March 7 in Nigeria's Plateau state.
Rampaging Fulani herdsmen used machetes to kill the mostly ethnic Berom victims, including many women and children, in three farming villages near the city of Jos. About 75 houses also were burned.
"We were woken up by gunshots in the middle of the night, and before we knew what was happening, our houses were torched and they started hacking down people" survivor Musa Gyang told media.
The assailants apparently came on foot from a neighboring state; security forces reportedly had been alerted of a possible attack on the villages but did not act beforehand.
Some 380 Christians were buried in one mass burial space, a local government official who asked to remain anonymous told International Christian Concern. The official said police have arrested 93 people and recovered guns, knives and other weapons from the suspects.
Bishop Andersen Bok, national coordinator of the Plateau State Elders Christian Fellowship, along with group Secretary General Musa Pam, described the attack as yet another "jihad and provocation on Christians."
"Dogo Nahawa is a Christian community," the Christian leaders said in a statement. "Eyewitnesses say the Hausa Fulani Muslim militants were chanting 'Allah Akbar,' broke into houses, cutting human beings, including children and women with their knives and cutlasses."
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