Nigerian pastor and humanitarian Gideon Agwom Mutum received a handwritten death threat July 12 amid ongoing violence in the country’s southern Kaduna State. Daily armed assaults in the area following the July 5 kidnapping of dozens of students from a Baptist school have left 33 people dead, 215 homes destroyed and four churches burned to the ground, according to a statement by Relief and Intervention Committee of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union.
Louisiana church’s Bible reading marathon ‘highly engaging’
Nearly 150 staff and members with First Baptist Church, Mandeville, Louisiana, gathered inside the worship center to read all the way through the Bible.
