The Guardian Nigeria


The Ekklesiyar Yan’uwaa Nigeria (EYN), also known as Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, has said it lost more than 8,370 members, including eight pastors, to the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.

EYN President, Joel Billi, who gave the statistics yesterday at a world news conference organised by the Dominion in Yola, Adamawa State, said 25,000 members of the church were currently taking refuge in neighbouring Cameroun, while more than 700,000 were in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. Billi said the purpose of the news conference was to review and highlight the effects of insurgency and the state of the nation on the church’s activities.

The president regretted that the activities of the terrorists had affected more than 1.5 million members, and caused huge damage to the denomination’s places of worship in the North East zone.

“It could be recalled that EYN has lost over 8,370 members and eight pastors with the numbers increasing on a daily basis. Over 700,000 members are displaced and about 25, 000 are currently taking refuge in Cameroon and Chad Republics.

“About 300 of the 586 churches have been either burnt or destroyed with an uncountable number of houses belonging to our members looted or burnt too,” Billi added.
He claimed the EYN is the single Christian denomination worse hit by activities of the Boko Haram terrorists.

On the fight against the insurgency, the EYN president commended the renewed zeal by the military and other security agents in tackling the menace. He, however, called on the Federal Government and the state governments of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa to, as a matter of urgency, rescue the remaining abducted Chibok schoolgirls and reunite them safely with their families.

“I also call, with a loud voice, on the Federal Government, under President Muhammadu Buhari, to rescue Leah Sharibu, Alice Loksha and hundreds of others abducted by the Boko Haram,” he stated.
https://m.guardian.ng/news/church-loses-eight-pastors-over-8000-members-to-boko-haram-insurgency/

May God save his Church at this trying times!!

When a Terrorist is your Leader, the country weeps

Islam The Religion Of ......

Boko haram is part of islamization agenda in the North and to be extended to the South if the South is docile.

Yep, including churches like ECWA, Catholic etc

Our president is in SHOCK right now.Someone should please UNSHOCK him and tell him to take charge of his country.

So sad
The gate of hell will still not prevail

When they say nigeria is a zoo, people will start insulting

peace

AgentNairaland:
Islam The Religion Of ......

Unknown Church in North with 700k members?

How?

Buhari should start by rejigging the security infrastructure and replacing the service chiefs.

jarawa:
peace

Uhmmm really

And Muslims have lost over 20,000 to bokoharam. Terrorism knows no religion, they only want attentions

May it never be wel with those who kill fr a franchise

helinues:
Unknown Church in North with 700k members?

How?

It's good that you asked a question at the end of your post. EYN is the largest church in the whole NE. Most northern minority Christians worship in churches set up by the immediate European missionaries they worked with. The three biggest of such churches are EYN(Ekklesi'an yanuwar), ECWA(Evangelical Church of West Africa) and COCIN(Church Of Christ In Nigeria). These churches have large followership and they conduct services in Hausa language for those minority tribes hence hausa permeated all over there territories. This is also a reason why they bear a lot of Hausa names.