Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
Government officials in Nigeria have confirmed a terrorist attack on Christmas Eve that killed at least six Christians in the nothern state of Yobe.
A church in the city of Potiskum was attacked and set on fire late Christmas eve. The attack was very similar to attacks carried out last year on Christmas by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. That series of attacks killed almost 40 people.
AFP news agency said that the pastor of the Evangelical Chruch of West Africa was among the people killed in the assault during a midnight mass. Military officials say troops were able to repel the terrorists but not until the attack on the church had completed.
The violence was part of the Pope’s Christmas address telling the world that many Christians are being attacked and killed in the world today but that you don’t hear about it in major media outlets.
The head of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Yobe told the AFP that many worshippers from the church are still missing.
