The ordeal of a pastoral couple jailed without trial for three years for taking in a runaway Muslim girl shows the injustices that Christians suffer in northern Nigeria, church leaders said.
Jonah Gangas and his wife Josephine, pastors of an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) congregation in Kaduna State, were acquitted of all charges in March after authorities arrested them in 2020 on false kidnapping charges, jailed them without trial and refused to grant them bail, rights advocates said.
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“The world needs to know that Christians in Nigeria are not free to worship as it is assumed,” Jerry Faruk of ECWA Plateau Church told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “Our hope is in God, but we need someone to help deal with cases like this one.”
In the 2024 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria was ranked No. 6, as it was in the previous year.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written and originally published by Morning Star News.
