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Related: About this forumAfter kidnapping schoolgirls, Boko Haram takes aim at churches in northeast Nigeria
Fredrick Nzwili
NAIROBI, KENYA (RNS) Five months after Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls in Nigerias Borno State, the Islamic extremist group has begun occupying churches in the countrys northeastern region, church officials there said.
The militant group, which church leaders and analysts view as an African variation of the Islamic State, is also beheading men, forcing Christian women to convert to Islam and taking them as wives, officials said.
Things are getting pretty bad, said the Rev. John Bakeni, the secretary of the Maiduguri Roman Catholic diocese in northeastern Nigeria. A good number of our parishes in Pulka and Madagali areas have been overrun in the last few days.
http://www.religionnews.com/2014/09/02/kidnapping-schoolgirls-boko-haram-takes-aim-churches-northeast-nigeria/
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)It's listed as a thing they are working on, on their site, but that's it. I see no evidence of much else happening.
This seems like precisely the sort of peacekeeping the UN would be good at.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)pick up the slack and that is not happening.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)The 'developed' world has, and continues to reap such benefit from Africa as a whole.
It's an indictment against such nations that we don't fund the UN with sufficient arms/supplies to dent the wars, some of which are direct outgrowths of corporate profiteering off Africa's resources and people.
My own nation included.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Shameful!
cbayer
(146,218 posts)She works for the CDC and will be going there as part of the US ebola team. I am not overly concerned and I am very proud of her, but it is still difficult to see someone you love go into places of great instability.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)She sounds like a remarkable woman.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)She is truly remarkable.