
Four churches were burned in an attack probably committed by members of the jihadist group Boko Haram in Borno State, one of the three northern states of Nigeria where a state of emergency has been imposed . A group of armed men with improvised explosive devices and petrol bombs attacked the Hwa’a, Kunde, Gathahure and Gjigga communities on Gwoza Hills, burning the four churches, raiding and looting cattle and grain reserves belonging to the population.
“Unfortunately I do not have precise information and do not know what communities the Christian churches destroyed belong to,” Mgr Ignatius Ayau Kaigama Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria said. Continue reading Nigeria: Four churches burned by Boko Haram