Pray for the Christians in Nigeria. Yesterday, Mike Pohlman blogged on the Gospel Coalition site that Nigerian Christians were slaughtered with machettes. Here is what was reported in the New York Times article.Many appeared to have been cut down with machetes after being driven from homes set ablaze by attackers in the predawn darkness, said Shamaki Gad Peter of the League for Human Rights, a Nigerian group.
Mr. Yenlong said the attackers were “hoodlums, Fulani herdsmen” — Muslims from a neighboring state, Bauchi, who were going after Christian members of Plateau’s leading ethnic group, the Berom, in the villages of Ratt and Dogona Hauwa.
“They attacked those villages and killed well over 300 people, mostly women, children and the aged,” Mr. Yenlong said. “They killed them unprovoked. Innocent people were massacred.”
Witnesses, including Mr. Peter, spoke of bodies littering the streets of Ratt. One victim was less than 3 months old, he said.
“I’m seeing more than 20 corpses right now, women and children who have been killed,” said Mr. Peter. “Virtually every house has been burned down. Corpses of people are littered about. They were slaughtered with machetes. I can see the cuts on their head and neck.”
There is a follow-up article in today's New York Times about how the death toll is rising.
