The Church in Northern Nigeria - crushed but not defeated - as in Great Britain, for now

The impact of persistent violence on the Church in Northern Nigeria has been highlighted in a report by Open Doors. You can read the Report here.

The research shows that decades of targeted religious violence has had an even larger impact on the Church in Northern Nigeria than previously expected. The violence against Christians in the region has resulted in thousands of people killed, including between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians – a conservative estimation according to this report. A large number of Christian properties have been destroyed, including 13,000 churches that have either been destroyed or closed down.

According to the report, over a million Christians in Northern Nigeria have become internally displaced or have settled in other areas of Nigeria in search of safety and security.

"More Anglicans die at the hands of Boko Haram than all Christians in Middle East" says the Rt. Rev. Jacob Kwashi, Bishop of Zonkwa, in northern Nigeria in a Virtue Online interview.

Also in the interview, "GAFCON Primates say they will not accept gifts from TEC [The Episcopal Church] or TWS [Trinity Wall Street] to be turned on [the] Gay Issue. In three years, Welby will be forced to take a stand, or watch as [the] Communion splits".

There are more than 20 million Nigerian Anglicans. Meanwhile the comparatively small Anglican Church in the West faces defeat from within as the chipping away of faith and tradition continues and the secular agenda intensifies.

How ironic that the centre of Anglicanism has become the source of its own destruction. 

The gullible West

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"Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday the Muslim world was “in turmoil” and wondered whether the “war on terror” led by the United States since 2001 was to blame for the radicalisation. ... The Afghan leader said: “Today, the Muslim world is in turmoil from Pakistan up to Nigeria,” and stressed: “In my view, the West as led by the US needs to explain itself to the Muslim world.”...  “In my view, there is much that we Muslims have to correct in our societies and governments, by showing more tolerance towards the rest of the world and other religions … but there is also a great deal of explanation to be done by the US and our Western friends." 

- With respect Mr President, Islamic terrorist attacks did not start in 2001 with the infamous 9/11 attacks in the US. 

President Karzai is not alone in suggesting that we in the West have some explaining to do as a result of these terrorist attacks. In Oxford recently an Imam suggested that Iraq was the turning point leading to Islamic terrorism in the UK. Referring to the "Woolwich murderers" Dr. Taj Hargey commented: "the Muslim community in the UK had never known such brutal terrorist attacks until the UK’s previous government drew Britain into overseas conflicts in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, and started “slavishly following” US policies.

There can be no excuses for terrorism. Such comments merely serve to deflect attention away from the root cause of Islamic terrorism which is “slavishly following” an ideology that leads to these atrocities as explained here rather than engaging in the means to eradicate it. Meanwhile gullible Westerners continue to turn a blind eye to the most appalling acts of desecration and blatant discrimination against Christians and other non-Muslims while being lectured about our complicity in terrorist acts. 

Today Cranmer has posted Palestinian Islamists are cleansing the Holy Land of Christians, just one more example of the duplicity of the religion of peace. Appeasement continues as our hard-pressed police set up a 'ring of steel' to protect mosques based on pure speculation. 

Rather than condemn the UK and the West in general through innuendo, far better to look at the global picture and the root cause of Islamic terrorism. But of course that is not going to happen as explained here. Islam will continue to be regarded as the victim [mutatis mutandis] by the gullible West until it is too late.