MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“There have been 24-hour-a-day attacks on Christian communities of Attagara, Hawul, and Gwoshe around the Gwoza mountains.” For peaceful purposes …

John 15:18, 21, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you… all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.”

By Dave Bohon, The New American – “Violence against Christians continued in Nigeria the first week of June as members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram attacked villages and churches in the northeastern portion of the country in a self-proclaimed effort to wipe out the predominant Christian faith in the African nation.

On June 4, reported BBC News, a group of Boko Haram terrorists posing as Christian ministers killed an estimated 45 people in a village near Maiduguri, capital of the Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. Survivors said that the attackers invited residents to come and hear them preach, but then opened fire on the crowd before fleeing across a river and set fire to houses and buildings in a nearby village.

That murderous attack followed an earlier and even more deadly one June 2, as Boko Haram terrorists dressed as soldiers attacked three villages in the remote Gwoza area of Borno State, slaughtering an estimated 200 civilians. In this case, reported Fox News, the killers ‘arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks — commonly used by the military — and told the civilians they were soldiers ‘and we are here to protect you all’ — the same tactic used by the group when they kidnapped [hundreds of girls] from a school in the town of Chibok on April 15.’

After the terrorists had gathered the residents together, ‘they began to shout ‘Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar’ at the top of their voices,’ said a survivor of the attack. ‘Then they began to fire at the people continuously for a very long time until all that gathered were dead.’

Meanwhile, Morning Star News, which monitors persecution and assaults against Christians around the world, reported on two similar attacks Sunday, June 1, in which Boko Haram thugs attacked and killed nine Christians guarding a church service in the Borno state, and 48 others in an attack in neighboring Adamawa state.

According to Christian leaders on the scene, at least 10 gunmen were involved in the attack on a Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) congregation in a village on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon. Reports from the scene confirmed that nine individuals volunteering as security for the church were killed in the attack. In the aftermath, Christian leaders told Morning Star News, area men mobilized to kill four of the terrorists, and capture three others, who were arrested by local authorities.

One local church leader, Dr. Rebecca Dali, whose husband Samuel Dali is the general overseer of the EYN congregations, said the attackers were part of a larger group of as many as 200 terrorists who have carried out a nearly continuous assault against Christians in the area, damaging and destroying churches and the homes of congregants.

‘There have been 24-hour-a-day attacks on Christian communities of Attagara, Hawul, and Gwoshe around the Gwoza mountains,’ said Dr. Dali, noting that her husband had attempted without success to contact military officials in the Borno capital of Maiduguri. She said that the attackers had met with little resistance in their ongoing assaults on Christian areas. ‘The Boko Haram Islamists have destroyed 36 churches in Gwoza area, including that of Attagara attacked on Sunday,’ she said. ‘We now have only two churches that have not been affected.'” Read more.

Flashback: Epidemic Outbreak Looms Over Nigeria Because Of Dead Bodies Littering Villages – “An alarm has been raised about a looming epidemic outbreak in Borno State over the decaying remains of victims of recent Boko Haram attacks still lying in the open in some parts of the state. The alarm was raised Sunday by the district head of one of the wards under Boko Haram siege, Lawan John, who is now seeking refuge in Maiduguri… ‘Corpses still littered our villages because we didn’t have access to the villages as the insurgents were still hanging around,’ he said, lamenting that none of the people of the area who had since fled could summon enough confidence to go back and bury some of the dead bodies still lying in the open. John said many of the villagers were still trapped in the mountains and hills without food to eat for over five days.” Read more.