Nigerian Women Carry Bibles, Protest Massacre

Fri, Mar. 12 2010
By Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter

Thousands of Nigerian women dressed in black and carrying Bibles, wooden crosses, pictures of victims, and branches symbolizing peace marched in a central Nigerian state on Thursday to protest the massacre of about 500 villagers, who were mostly women and children.

The women, some with babies strapped on their back, walked from the headquarters of the Evangelical Church of West Africa in the city of Jos to the Plateau State House of Assembly calling for greater investigation into the mass murder of hundreds of people in two predominantly Christian villages near Jos.

“We are mourning because of the children that were killed on Sunday, we are coming as a mass to cry out,” said Rebecca Adiwu, according to Agence France-Presse. the rest