Sunday, July 17, 2016 

Muslim young people assault another Catholic Church, says Friday has a place with us (photographs) 

A gathering of Muslim young people, on Friday assaulted St. Philips Catholic Parish, Baki Iku, near Zuma Rock in Niger State. As indicated by onlookers, a few Catholics had gone to the congregation to ask and were assaulted by the Muslims who asserted that Friday is their day of supplication and that the Church just has right to revere on Sundays. 

Data assembled from onlookers said, they were obliterating the Church properties: the entryways and the windows. A few officers figured out how to arrive later yet a considerable measure of damages have been done to the building, while the Christians fled in various bearings to abstain from

being murdered. It ought to be reviewed that Alhaji Kabiru Sokoto had on Christmas day four years back (December 25 20111) exploded a bomb that killed more than 200 Catholics and bystanders at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, near St. Philips that was wrecked. Rev Fr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, the Vicar-General of the Diocese affirmed the episode.

He said, "At some point around 2pm, some Muslim young people in their hundreds left their Mosque after their Friday Jumat petition and hurried to the Church premises, climbed the divider and annihilated everything in the Church: the windows, the adjust, musical instruments, the sanctuary. "The security man in the congregation premises was beaten to mash. A few ladies who were holding a supplication meeting were pursued away. The seminarian who is occupant in the premises was additionally thumped and pursued away." Just a week ago, Mrs Eunice Olawale Elisha, a versatile minister of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was slaughtered by some over the top Muslims in Kubwa, FCT.