Nigeria: As the Church Slept.... the Trilogy

2011 has been a particularly rough year for the Church in Nigeria. To the best of my knowledge the Church has never felt so insecure and threatened than she has been in the last one year.

It's not as if she has never faced similar persecutions, attacks and destructions hitherto but the scale and mode of attacks have attained an unprecedented scale in that bombs and other sophisticated weapons have been deployed into the arsenal of her attackers. We now have a situation where, in cities like Damaturu, Potiskum and Maiduguri Churches have been almost levelled out of existence by bombs culminating in the loss of hundreds of lives.

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