Christians at a prayer meeting, yesterday, declared that God will fight all perpetrating unwarranted attacks on Southern Kaduna communities.
\nThe Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Kaduna State chapter had commenced a one month interdenominational prayers every Sunday tagged, \u2018Black Sunday\u2019, against the continued attacks and unwarranted killings in Southern Kaduna.
\nThe prayers, which held at the Evangelical Winning All Church (ECWA) Narayi High Cost, yesterday, attracted Christians in thousands, all adorned in black attires.
\nThey engaged in fervent prayers for peace in Nigeria, Kaduna State and Southern Kaduna.
\nVarious pastors took turn to lead the congregation in sessions of prayers against the killings.
\nThey asked God to intervene and restore peace in all the troubled areas and fight the battles of the helpless.
\nThe President of the United Church of Christ in Nigeria (HEKAN), Rev Amos G. Kiri, who took his reading from Psalms 46 vs 1- 11, charged the congregation not to be weary with the happenings but raise their voices to God in prayers.
\nHe noted any government that is not worried about the well-being of her citizens does not deserve to be called a government, and challenged Christians in government to speak against all forms of injustice against the church in Nigeria.
\n\u201cInsensitive government and leaders must wake up from their slumber, government must listen to our cry, the killings in southern Kaduna must stop, enough is enough and what is good for the goose should be good for the gander\u201d, he said.
\nThe Chairman, Kaduna Chapter of CAN, Rev Joseph Hayab, called for continued prayers for God to expose those behind the killings.
\nHe called on Christian leaders with specific mention of Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Pastor Paul Eneche and many others to speak up and not keep quiet against the killings.
\nThe President of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Hon. Jonathan Asake, thanked the church for standing with them in prayers.
\nHe said the killings must not be given political colouration but condemned as a crime against humanity.
\nMeanwhile, a coalition of civil society groups, Southern Kaduna Indigenous Peace Practitioners (SOKIPEP), has called for the immediate parade and prosecution of suspects arrested in connection with the killings in the southern part of Kaduna State.
\nThe coalition also lauded the efforts of the military for the number of arrest made so far in the attacks.
\nThe civil society groups, in a statement by its Coordinator, Rev Dr Dauda Fadia, yesterday, appealed to the military to hand over the suspected militia members in their custody to the Police for immediate parade and prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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