Boko Haram Takes Over Catholic Church

The dreaded Boko Haram sect have reportedly taken over the Catholic Church house, as well as houses of Christians in Madagali, Adamawa State. The Catholic Church on Thursday, August 28, made this complain, in an electronic press statement by the Director, Catholic Social Communications in-charge of the Maiduguri Diocese, Rev. Fr. Gideon Obasogie, said that though the members of Boko Haram had been known not to discriminate in their attacks, it however seemed that Christians and Christian institutions had been at the receiving end of the sect’s mayhem. Obasogie said: “The whole town and the parish rectory have been occupied by the terrorists; so many structures and items have been vandalised. Dozens killed and a lot of church structures have been burnt down.” “Christians in the town are really in a terribly situation; a moment of great persecution. “Christian men are caught and beheaded; the women are forced to become Muslims and are taken as wives to the terrorists. The houses of Christians that have fled are now occupied by the insurgents.