According to one report, dated 14 May and entitled Hundreds of Christians Die in Bloody Massacres in Kano:
Many hundreds of innocent Christians have died in Kano since a Muslim protest turned into carnage in retaliation for Muslim deaths hundreds of miles away in Yelwe.
Members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) say some 600 Christians have been killed so far this week in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city. Andrew Ubah, the general secretary of the association in Kano, told Reuters on Thursday 13 May that he was keeping a tally based on reports from church leaders throughout the city. "Almost 600 people have been killed and 12 churches burned," he said. . . .
"Hundreds of people were killed," said Christian leader Mark Amani. "Some corpses were burned in wells. Even little children were killed. The bodies of pregnant women were ripped open and their bodies burned," he said.
Sources report the killing of several hundred people when defiant mobs of Muslim youths armed with clubs and machetes and cutlasses rampaged at about 1 a.m. on Thursday despite a police imposed curfew. Mobs went from house to house looking for Christian victims and in some cases trapped the occupants inside and torched the houses. . . .
In other news dated 14 May from Pakistan a Christian was tortured to death by Islamic seminary students:
Muslims from an Islamic seminary in Toba Tek Singh, Punjab Province, Pakistan tortured a young Christian for five days and nights in order to force him to convert to Islam.
Students from the seminary run by Maulvi Ghulam Rasool set upon 19-year old Javaid Anjum, accusing him of stealing their water pump when they found him drinking from an outside tap on 17 April 2004. Javaid replied to their accusations by freely telling them he was a Christian merely searching for a drink and that they could be assured that he would not steal anything.
Upon learning that Javaid was a Christian, those accosting him forcibly took him into the school where he was tortured for five days by Maulvi Ghulam Rasool and others. Throughout his torture, Javaid's tormentors ordered him to deny his Christian faith and embrace Islam. Finally they took him to a local police station on 22 April and accused him of theft. He was clearly dying so the police informed his family and allowed them to remove him to hospital. Javaid was able to make a statement on video during his hospital treatment, which included dialysis on several occasions because both his kidneys failed. Javaid did not recover from his torture and died in hospital shortly after 2 a.m. on 2 May.
Javaid was a university student reading commerce. He had been returning to his grandfather's house after a visit to an aunt when he was abducted. The injuries Javaid sustained could hardly be more horrific. He was given electric shocks repeatedly to various parts of his body including his ears, which damaged his hearing. His right arm and fingers were fractured and his nails were pulled out. His feet were swollen from beating and he suffered contusions and lacerations all over his body. He received many internal injuries, and besides the two failed kidneys the doctors' report notes that he passed blood or pus instead of urine. In many places his skin appeared blackened and oozed pus and he could barely move.
Pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters worldwide.
Posted by Clifton at May 15, 2004 01:09 PM