More Than a Dozen Killed at Nigeria Church After New Year's Service

War on Christianity - Nigeria

Islam's first massacre of the year came just 20 minutes after midnight, New Years

By Susan McFarland

UPI -- At least 14 people were killed Monday by gunmen in southern Nigeria after a New Year's Day church service, police said.

Gunmen attacked two different locations at the church, in a coordinated effort targeting Christians returning from church around 12: 20 a.m., officials said.

Officials said shooters fired at random at the church, killing some at close range during the early morning ambush after a group attended midnight service in the region of Rivers state.

Fireworks during celebrations in Omuku made it difficult to hear the gunfire, witnesses said. More than 26 people were shot in the attack, about 50 miles from Port Harcourt.

The area has seen an increase in violent crime after a government amnesty program for former gang members was allowed to lapse. The program halted violence in the region, which had been inundated by militants who demanded that more of Nigeria's oil wealth be kept in oil-producing regions.

This massacre was probably not an economics statement, but rather an Islamic assault on Christianity. Dropping the amnesty program may have induced more criminals to be sympathetic to Islamic beliefs and intolerance, but this was certainly an anti-Christian assault.

And it is not surprising that it took Islam just 20 minutes into the new year to perpetrate its first massacre of 2018. Unfortunately, too few people will learn anything from this. Too few people know anything about Islamic history or even the current situation. The west will pay a heavy price for its deliberate ignorance and liberal lunacy.

Suicide Bombers Kill 8 in Attack on Pakistan Church

War on Christianity - Pakistan Style

Unlike civilized countries where the War on Christianity is fought in the courts and the media, in Pakistan, and many other Islamic countries, stupid people are wrapped in bombs and blow themselves up in Christian churches. They think they are heroes, but they will spend Eternity in Hell. 

John 16:2 -  Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

By ABDUL SATTAR / AP 

(QUETTA, Pakistan) — Two suicide bombers attacked a church in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday, killing eight people and wounding 42 others, officials said. The Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister for the southwestern Baluchistan province, said hundreds of worshippers were attending services at the church ahead of Christmas. He said the attackers clashed with security forces, with one assailant killed at the entrance while the other made it inside.

Baluchistan police chief Moazzam Ansari praised the response of security forces guarding the church, saying the attacker who made it inside was wounded and unable to reach the main building. “Otherwise the loss of lives could have been much higher,” he told reporters.

Quetta police chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema said a search is underway for two suspected accomplices who escaped.

The Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the attack on their Aamaq news agency, saying two “plungers” from their group had stormed the church, without providing further details.

Wasim Baig, spokesman for Quetta main hospital, confirmed the attack’s toll, updating earlier accounts from officials.

Local television showed ambulances and security patrols racing to the scene while women and children were being led out of the church’s main gate.

Hospital officials said two women were among the dead while another five women and two children were among the wounded.

A young girl in a white dress sobbed as she recounted the attack to Geo television, saying many people around her were wounded.

Aqil Anjum, who was shot in his right arm, told The Associated Press he heard a blast in the middle of the service, followed by heavy gunfire. “It was chaos. Bullets were hitting people inside the closed hall.”

Dozens of Christians gathered outside a nearby hospital to protest the lack of security.

Pakistan’s president and other senior officials condemned the attack.