Nigerian police spokesman, Mohammed Lerama, recently stated that authorities were planning to begin prosecuting around 200 suspects who allegedly had been involved in the slaughter of hundreds of people living in predominantly Christian villages in the Jos area. The two separate attacks were believed to have been carried out by Muslim extremists. Charges of terrorism and homicide will be laid.
The directory of Open Door’s Africa urged people to remember the daily fear that local Nigerian Christians were being forced to live under.
"I think it is also important to understand that the Nigerian Christians are not super human beings. We need to understand that those Christians in northern Nigeria face discrimination, humiliation and attacks on almost a daily basis," he stated. "They have built and rebuilt homes and churches so many times. They have gone to morgues to look for the bodies of their loved ones so often.”
The director went onto to say that local pastors were reporting that local people were becoming extremely reluctant to forgive these attacks, the Christian Post reports.
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