Nigeria: Muslims storm evening worship service, murder pastor and another Christian, kidnap one woman
Purveyors of the fashionable moral equivalence have yet to explain why this sort of thing happens so often, while one never hears about Christians storming mosques. Nor should Christians storm mosques. But there are still people in this world who claim to be serious and yet claim that Christianity and Islam are equally likely to incite their adherents to violence.
Pastor, Worshipper Gunned Down in Northwest Nigeria
Morning Star News, July 10, 2025:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – During an evening worship service on Monday (July 7), suspected Islamic extremists gunned down a Baptist pastor and another worshipper and kidnapped a woman in Katsina state, northwest Nigeria.
About 15 to 20 gunmen with Fulani accents stormed Bege Baptist Church in Yaribori (also known as Yari Bori) village, Kafur County, and shot the Rev. Emmanuel Na’allah Auta and Mallam Samaila Gidan Taro, according to news outlet TruthNigeria.
Church member Zakariya Jatau told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News that the pastor was leading a worship service and Bible study when he was shot.
“Another member, a lady, was also kidnapped and taken away to an unknown place,” he said, corroborating the account of another church member.
Congregation members said the slain Gidan Taro was a prominent convert from Islam, and that Pastor Na’allah had worked to reconcile the village’s Muslim and Christian communities, TruthNigeria reported….
Nigeria: Muslims kill 20 Christians, kill 80 others elsewhere, tear down 96 houses belonging to Christians
Israel cannot be blamed, so the jihad against Christians in Nigeria gets no international media attention.
Pastor, Worshipper Gunned Down in Northwest Nigeria
Morning Star News, July 10, 2025:
…In Plateau state in central Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen killed 20 Christians in one area of the state in June, while predominantly Christian villages in another county in the state have suffered the slaughter of 80 of its residents since May, sources said.
In Mangu County, herdsmen razed 96 houses belonging to Christians in Gyambwas, Langai District as they killed two Christians on June 27, area resident Esther Luka said.
“This is the devastating effects of Fulani killings in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau state,” Luka told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News in a text message. “On Friday 27th June, my friend’s dad, Rose Dapus, went to his farm at Gyambwas, with about 15 hired Christians to till the ground and to plant crops. At the end of the day, he paid and dismissed the hired workers while he remained with his son to put a few touches on the farm. That was when the herdsmen attacked the two of them. The son was able to run and escape to tell the story, but his father was shot dead.”
In the county’s Manja village, herdsmen on June 19 killed three Christians as they were working on their farms, residents said.
“The three Christians were on the farm, tilling the grounds and tending their farmland when the armed herdsmen attacked and killed them,” Mathew Kwarpo, a legislator in the Plateau State House of Assembly, told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “The terrorists during the attack in Manja village didn’t just kill the three Christians but also set fire on over 20 houses belonging to Christians.”
On June 11, herdsmen killed eight Christians in the county’s Chicim village, resident Jeremy Nyuwa said.
“The armed herdsmen invaded the community, which is only one mile from Mangu town, and started shooting Christian villagers they sighted,” Nyuwa said. “And in Bwai village, another Christian community, the herdsmen attacked Christians there on 10 June. During the attack seven Christians were gunned down.”
In Bokkos County, Fulani herdsmen in concert with other Islamic extremist terrorists have attacked 13 predominantly Christian villages since May, killing 80 people and destroying dozens of houses, sources said. Military authorities confirmed the attacks and sent forces to the affected communities.
Attacked on June 29 were the villages of Tulus, Hokk and Juwan, while 10 other communities were raided in earlier incidents on June 27, June 26 and June 2, Christian leaders said. A pastor’s house was burned down in the June 29 attack in Hokk.
Amalau Samuel, chairman of the Bokkos Local Government Council, described the attacks as “barbaric and inhuman.”…
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