{"id":3687,"date":"2013-07-17T09:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2013-07-17T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:57:54","slug":"nigeria-extremists-retaliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA: Extremists Retaliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Baptist Press<\/a>, July 3, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Thousands have fled their homes in northern Nigeria amid Islamic extremist attacks on Christians, partly in retaliation for the government&#8217;s state of emergency and the destruction of extremist bases.<\/p>\n<p>The violence was attributed to ethnic Fulani Muslims and to the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, indicating the latter has regrouped and retaliated against Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s state of emergency and corresponding destruction in May of Boko Haram bases in the Sambisa Games Reserve in Borno.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram is blamed for killing pastor Jacob Kwiza and attacking five Christian communities in Borno&#8217;s Mandara Hills area, Morning Star News reported. Fulani Muslims are blamed for killing Toma Vongjen, a Christian in the Wase area of Plateau State, and destroying church buildings in four villages there, the persecution monitor reported.<\/p>\n<p>The thousands who fled their homes had been warned by Boko Haram to flee within a week or face death, area Christians said, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dinfa Lambda, a pastor in Jos, told Morning Star News whole villages have been displaced in northern Nigeria and that Christian fellowship and evangelistic outreach efforts are no longer possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are Christian villages that have been completely wiped out by these Muslim terrorists,&#8221; Lambda was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=40676&amp;ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0703\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read full story<\/a>, as well as another Baptist Press story making the case that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/BPnews.asp?ID=40677\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Nigerian Islamic Terrorism Transcends Religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2013\/07\/boko-haram-begs-for-forgiveness-signs-ceasefire-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Boko Haram Begs for Forgiveness, Signs Ceasefire Deal<\/a> (Vanguard News) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanfrontiers.com\/2013\/07\/10\/why-nigeria-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Why Nigeria Matters<\/a> (Julian Linnell, Anglican Frontier Missions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Baptist Press, July 3, 2013 Thousands have fled their homes in northern Nigeria amid Islamic extremist attacks on Christians, partly in retaliation for the government&#8217;s state of emergency and the destruction of extremist bases. The violence was attributed to ethnic Fulani Muslims and to the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, indicating the latter has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIGERIA: Extremists Retaliate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}