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‘I was asleep with my wife, Mary, when [Fulani militants] arrived. When I woke up I discovered that they had
‘I forgive them. If God can forgive, who am I not to?’
completely surrounded the house and they started shooting where we were sleeping.
‘We got out of bed and tried to cover the window so they wouldn’t see us. Then we tried hiding in the corner but they kept on shooting until they shot her dead. Then they continued shooting, first at my leg, second my lap and then in my back. The fourth [bullet] went into my right eye.
Tom Hardie reports
hristians in central and suffering, but while the Nigerian northern Nigeria are continuing authorities appear ineffective or even to face bloody and unrelenting sometimes complicit in the violence,
violence – most notably today at the believers continue to respond with hands of militant Fulani herdsmen. love and forgiveness towards their
Each week we receive reports
of further atrocities carried out Jude Gudugudu, who lost his wife in against predominantly Christian a Fulani raid on his community in communities. It seems the May 2021 as well as being severely persecution is only intensifying in this injured himself, said he forgave those two-decades-old story of Christian responsible.
aggressors.
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