Nigeria: Do Not be Afraid, Bishop Kukah Appeals

16 January 2012

ON Christmas day, a bomb exploded at St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla, in Niger State, killing over thirty people and wounding a significant number of other innocent citizens who had come to worship their God as the first part of their Christmas celebrations.

Barely two days later, we heard of the tragic and mindless killings within a community in Ebonyi State in which over sixty people lost their lives with property worth millions of naira destroyed and hundreds of families displaced. In the midst of all this, on New Year's Day, the President announced the withdrawal of fuel subsidy and threw an already angry and frustrated nation into convulsion.

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