A group of Muslim youths yesterday the 15th day of July 2016 attacked St. Philip’s Catholic Parish, Baki Iku, close to Zuma Rock in Niger State, destroying properties worth thousands.
Revered-Father Gobep Luka Sylvester, the Vicar-General of Parish, who confirmed the news last night said about 200 Muslim youths stormed the Church premises yesterday and destroyed properties of the church.
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A source reported that some Catholics had gone to the church to pray and were attacked by the Muslims, who claimed that Friday was their day of prayer. The problem being that Catholics went to church on Friday. They said they only had right to worship on Sundays.
According to Revered Father Sylvester:
‘Sometime around 2 pm, some Muslim youths in numbering 200 left their Mosque after their Friday Jumat prayer and rushed to the Church premises, climbed the wall and destroyed everything in the Church: the windows, the altar, musical instruments, the chapel.
’The security man in the church premises was beaten to a pulp. Some women who were holding a prayer meeting were chased away. The seminarian who is resident in the premises was also beaten up and chased away.”
He said the incident had been reported to the police, and they claimed to have made some arrest and promised to investigate the matter.
The Revered Father concluded thus:
“Just last week, Mrs Eunice Olawale, a mobile preacher of the Redeemed Christian Church of God was killed by some fanatical Muslims in Kubwa, FCT. How long are we going to continue like this?
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