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Christian-Muslim violence requires a 'new' missions strategy: Forgiveness and love.

By Obed Minchakpu in Jos | posted 11/01/2004 12:00AM

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There are no easy solutions. Muslim militants have burned down a church-run seminary in Kaduna, a central state, several times. Ademola Ishola, general secretary of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, said the sponsoring church plans to relocate it.

"What they burn, we rebuild, and sometimes even relocate to other places where at least our properties can be protected," Ishola says. "That is what we are trying to do."

Obed Minchakpu writes for the Compass Direct news service, which supplemented this report.

Related Elsewhere:

This article is a sidebar to Mutual Mayhem | A plea for peace and truth in the madness of Nigeria.

During riots in Plateau State this May, we compiled a Hot Topic page of articles as we followed the crisis. The articles include:

Eye for an Eye for an Eye | Are Nigeria's deadly religious riots really about religion? (June 22, 2004)

Weblog: 3,000 Christians Killed in Kano Attacks, Group Says | Nigeria death toll much higher than previous claims (May 21, 2004)

Pastors Killed, Churches Burned | New wave of violence begins in Nigeria. (May 17, 2004)

Weblog: Nigerian Christians Say Nearly 600 Killed In This Week's Riots | A situation in desperate need of hard reporting. (May 14, 2004)

Weblog: Fresh Fighting in Nigeria—Death Estimates Now Over 1,000 | As Muslim prayers ended today in Kano, Nigeria, more violence erupted in the city that officials thought they had largely under control. (May 14, 2004)

Weblog: Eye-for-Eye Religious Violence Blinds Nigeria | Muslims retaliate against retaliatory attack, leaving many casualties. (May 11, 2004)

Weblog: Nigerian Christians Attack Muslims, Kill Dozens | Reports estimate that between 67 and 300 are dead after Christian ethnic Taroks attacked Muslim cattle-herders in the town of Yelwa in central Nigeria's Plateau State. (May 05, 2004)

International Christian Concern has stats and persecution information on Nigeria.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has a six-page policy focus on Nigeria.

More from Nigeria is available from our World Report and from AllAfrica.com.

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