Christian Communities near Town in Nigeria Disappearing

Islamist attacks drive Christians from two villages in Bauchi state; two Christians dead.TAFAWA BALEWA, Nigeria
June 14, 2011

(CDN) — In a village outside this Bauchi state town in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, what was once a Christian community has vanished.

Last March the Christian peasant farmers of Mdandi village, eight kilometers (five miles) northwest of the Government Girls Secondary School in Tafawa Balewa town, were busy harvesting crops and preparing for a new farming season. On March 27 scores of armed, hard-line Islamists – avoiding the surrounding Muslim villages – descended on Mdandi, destroyed the Christians’ homes and drove them out, former residents said. the rest