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(LifeSiteNews) — A Nigerian bishop has raised his voice lamenting and condemning the Islamic persecution of Catholics sweeping the country that “has become a daily occurrence.”
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi, Nigeria spoke to Catholic News Agency about the ongoing and escalating violence against Nigerian Christians at the hands of militant Fulani herdsmen in his Benue State region, which he said was a “full-blown realization of the Islamic agenda.”
Referring to a Good Friday attack in April that left 43 dead and more than 40 injured when gunmen raided a school building serving as a shelter for displaced Christian farmers and their families, Anagbe said, “If you see the video, you would just weep. They came and they slaughtered all of them.”
However, the bishop explained, little to no action has been taken on the part of the government, which is predominantly Muslim, to curb or address the violence. “And [with] all this happening, there have been no arrests. The government is not prepared to take action about this … Nigeria is not like the U.S. where you have state police. If anything happens in Benue State … you need a call from the headquarters [in the capital] to let the police look into it. So, if they have not been given any instruction they will not go.”
Lamenting the inaction of the authorities, he said, “So, in this situation, we have been caged, we have nothing to do.”…
Corroborating the NADP report, Bishop Anagbe confirmed that any claim denying the nature of violence as persecution against Christians, such as western claims that the situation is due to climate change and overpopulation, was emphatically not true but “propaganda.”
“They say it’s about climate change; this is not true,” he declared….
(LifeSiteNews) — A Nigerian bishop has raised his voice lamenting and condemning the Islamic persecution of Catholics sweeping the country that “has become a daily occurrence.”
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi, Nigeria spoke to Catholic News Agency about the ongoing and escalating violence against Nigerian Christians at the hands of militant Fulani herdsmen in his Benue State region, which he said was a “full-blown realization of the Islamic agenda.”
Referring to a Good Friday attack in April that left 43 dead and more than 40 injured when gunmen raided a school building serving as a shelter for displaced Christian farmers and their families, Anagbe said, “If you see the video, you would just weep. They came and they slaughtered all of them.”
However, the bishop explained, little to no action has been taken on the part of the government, which is predominantly Muslim, to curb or address the violence. “And [with] all this happening, there have been no arrests. The government is not prepared to take action about this … Nigeria is not like the U.S. where you have state police. If anything happens in Benue State … you need a call from the headquarters [in the capital] to let the police look into it. So, if they have not been given any instruction they will not go.”
Lamenting the inaction of the authorities, he said, “So, in this situation, we have been caged, we have nothing to do.”…
Corroborating the NADP report, Bishop Anagbe confirmed that any claim denying the nature of violence as persecution against Christians, such as western claims that the situation is due to climate change and overpopulation, was emphatically not true but “propaganda.”
“They say it’s about climate change; this is not true,” he declared….
