Martyrdom in Nigeria

July 1, 2011
by George Conger

A Christian village in Northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State has been burnt to the ground and its wells poisoned by Muslim militants, the Bishop of Ikara writes.

In an email to Barnabas Aid, Bishop Yusuf Ishaya Janfalan reported that on April 18 approximately 300 armed Muslim militants attacked the village of Ung Karau. As the villagers fled, the mob set fire to the village destroying 183 homes and businesses and the village church.

The attackers also fouled the town well in a bid to drive the inhabitants away. Bishop Janfalan wrote the villagers “were drinking from two wells. But when the mobs arrived they broke their store rooms, carried pepper and poured inside the well. They also poured their clothes, mortars, firewood and all sort of rubbish inside the well. We have stopped the villagers from drinking from the well, as we are suspecting that the mobs poisoned the well.” the rest