End Killings Of Christians, Protect Their Communities Now, CAN Tells Government

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has issued an urgent telephone to the national government, demanding transparent and equitable enactment to halt the convulsive attacks targeting Christian communities and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The request was contained successful a connection signed by the National President of CAN, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, connected Wednesday, successful effect to the escalating insecurity and nationalist conversations connected faith-based violence.

Okoh stated that the relation has followed the caller sermon with “deep concern,” emphasising the request to “speak clearly, truthfully, and with compassion” astatine specified a captious time.

“CAN affirms, without hesitation, that galore Christian communities successful parts of Nigeria, particularly successful the North, person suffered terrible attacks, nonaccomplishment of life, and the demolition of places of worship,” Okoh stated.

He described the realities arsenic achy reminders of the urgent request for authorities and information agencies to enactment decisively to support each citizen.

The CAN president elaborate the association’s sustained, multi-year efforts to gully planetary attraction to the persecution, including establishing mechanisms to papers religiously-motivated killings, engaging with planetary partners, and penning to the International Criminal Court successful The Hague.

However, helium expressed profound vexation that these efforts person yielded small factual effect from authorities.

“Our interest remains that these cries for justness and extortion are excessively often met with hold oregon denial.

“We truthful renew our telephone connected authorities and information agencies to instrumentality urgent, transparent, and equitable enactment to extremity the killings, safeguard susceptible Christian communities from displacement, and guarantee that perpetrators look the afloat value of the law,” helium said.

Okoh, who stressed the quality calamity down the violence, said that the symptom of Christian families torn isolated by unit indispensable ne'er beryllium treated arsenic specified statistics.

While acknowledging the government’s existing efforts successful tackling the nation’s information challenges, CAN urged that they beryllium redoubled towards equitable extortion for all, calling for perpetrators to beryllium brought swiftly and transparently to justice.

“Nigeria’s healing volition not travel from denial oregon blame, but from courage: the courageousness to look our corporate failures, to grieve together, and to rebuild spot wrong our communities. Only past tin our federation emergence from its wounds and clasp a aboriginal of genuine peace,” helium stated.