{"id":28426,"date":"2018-04-30T06:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=28426"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:02:01","slug":"india-a-love-that-doesnt-take-retirement-maria-lozano-acn-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/04\/30\/india-a-love-that-doesnt-take-retirement-maria-lozano-acn-international\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA: &#8220;We live in fear&#8221; &#8211; 2 priests\u00a0 killed in \u00a0attack on church &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NIGERIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We live in fear&#8221; &#8211; 2 priests\u00a0 and 15 parishioners killed in \u00a0attack on church<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLiving in fear. The Fulani are still around us here in Mbalom. They refuse to go. They still go grazing around us. No weapons to defend ourselves.\u201d These words were written on Facebook in January by Father Joseph Gor, parish preist of St. Ignatius church in Ayar-Mbalom, a community in the Gwer East local government area of Benue State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Four months later, on 24 April Fr Gor, another Catholic priest Father Felix Tyolaha and 15 parishioners were killed during a funeral Mass by gunmen. Reports say that about 30 Fulani militants waited for the faithful to gather at the church before attacking. They also burned down about 50 homes in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The incessant attacks on Christians in northern parts of Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen have been strongly condemned by Nigerians, who are demanding justice and security from their government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When Nigeria\u2019s Catholic bishops met with Pope Francis on 26 April for their periodic \u201cad Limina\u201d visit, Bishop William Avenya said on behalf of the other bishops present:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe government apparatus is completely, as it seems to us, helpless, dysfunctional or deliberately helpless and deliberately dysfunctional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The world is not hearing us. It started like this in Rwanda; the world did not hear. It started like this many years back in Germany. The world was deaf. This is what is happening to us, and the world needs to know that we are in trouble!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Holy Father has repeatedly appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria, which has both large Catholic and Muslim populations.\u00a0\u00a0 Pope Francis repeated his frequent prayers and plea for peace in Nigeria on 29 April 29, 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLast week the Christian community of Nigeria was stricken again with the killing of a group of faithful, among whom were two priests,\u201d Pope Francis said. \u201cWe entrust these brothers to the God of mercy, that he may help those very tried communities to rediscover concord and peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA &#8220;We live in fear&#8221; &#8211; 2 priests\u00a0 and 15 parishioners killed in \u00a0attack on church \u201cLiving in fear. 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