Monday, May 12, 2014
C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N!!! Abducted Girls’ Conversion To lslam, War Against Christians - Pastor Oritsejafor.
The National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor, said on Monday that the purported conversion of the abducted schoolgirls
of Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Born State by members of Boko Haram was a
declaration of war against Christians in the country.
The CAN leader, who was reacting to a new video by the Boko Haram, showing the Chibok
schoolgirls reciting the Holy Qur’an on Monday, noted that those girls could not be
exchanged for the release of any detained Boko Haram members, who he described as
‘criminal’ in detention, as demanded by the sect.
Oritsejafor, who spoke through the CAN’s National Director of Research, Elder Sunday
Oibe, at a press conference in Kaduna, added that the forceful conversion of the
girls, who are mostly Christians, amounted to persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
He said, “I have the consent of our national president, who is abroad to address you.
First, these children are Christians and not Muslims and so they cannot be converted
to a religion that is not theirs at gunpoint without conviction. Besides, is that how
conversion is being carried out? All the children displayed are Christians and that
is the motive behind the abduction.
“It is simple. Because they are Christians and they represent the church in the eyes
of their abductors. Secondly, it smacks of some form of religious persecution. If
not, why are their captors converting them to another religion? And if they say they
will use them as a condition to negotiate for their men in detention, our daughters
are not criminals and cannot be used in any way to free their criminal fighters.
“Show us where in Nigeria you have seen Christians fighting and throwing bombs in the
name of God. We challenge any one to show us where Christians have abducted Muslim
children in the name of Christianity. We challenge anyone to prove in Nigeria where
Christians have taken arms in the name of protecting Christianity or even carry out
acts of genocide on helpless and defenceless Nigerians. As far we are concern, it is
a war against Christians and Christianity.” - Hope For Nigeria
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