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02/24/2021
Nigeria
(International Christian Concern) – According to The Morning Star News, Fulani herdsmen shot and killed 65-year-old Mati Sani, a lay-leader of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) and abducted three Christians while hospitalizing another. The attack occurred in Kankara County, Katsina state, in the early morning hours of February 16
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Mati Sani’s son, Reverend Ali Mati, was paraphrased in a Morning Star News report: “’Fulani Bandits’ also abducted Ibrahim Lawal, Mamar Rahila and Hafsat Yusuf, besides shooting and wounding Danjuma Sani Mati, who was receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Center in the city of Katsina. The victims are all Christians who are related to each other” said Mati.
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, has condemned the burning of a pavilion meant for an ECWA church conference in the Zangon-Kataf local government area of the state.
An evangelical pastor, his daughter, and more than a dozen other churchgoers were reportedly abducted while one person was killed after a team of gunmen attacked villages in the troubled Kaduna state of Nigeria on Sunday.
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Evangelical Church of Winning All (ECWA) has declared that over 200 missions supporters of Evangelical Missionary Society (EMS) of ECWA were affected by the economic hardships caused by Covid-19 pandemic.
The mission in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer Rev. Romanus Ebenwokodi said this, in turn, has affected the ability to continue with missions support in ECWA.
It, however, debunked the publication in some online platforms that the church lost 200 of its mission supporters to covid-19 adding the publication was a misrepresentation and far from the position of the church.
“The truth is, 200 ECWA missions supporters did not die. Rather, over 200 missions supporters of Evangelical Missionary Society (EMS) of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) were affected by the economic hardships caused by Covid-19 pandemic. This in turn affected their ability to continue with missions support in ECWA.