Christians Rescued From Nigerian Church Basement After Months Of Waiting For Jesus Christ’s Second Coming

Christians Rescued From Nigerian Church Basement After Months Of Waiting For Jesus Christ’s Second Coming

At least 77 individuals, including 23 children, were saved by Nigerian police after being asked by pastors to wait for the Second Coming of Jesus in a church basement.

According to a spokesman for the Ondo State Police, pastors of the Whole Bible Believer Church in Valentino Area of Ondo Town in the state’s southwest had urged churchgoers to “remain behind” and wait for the rapture or to be taken to Heaven at Christ’s Second Coming.

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Some people had been kept in the church since last year, residents told The Associated Press.

Police learned about the incident after parents of some children filed nuisance complaints. One woman said the church had possibly kidnaped her daughters as she was not allowed to register for her exams.

Christians Rescued From Nigerian Church Basement After Months Of Waiting For Jesus Christ’s Second Coming

“Preliminary investigation revealed that one Pastor Josiah Peter Asumosa, an assistant pastor in the church, was the one who told the members that Rapture will take place in April, but later said it has been changed to September 2022 and told the young members to obey only their parents in the Lord,” BBC quoted police press officer Funmilayo Odunlami as saying.

Police have arrested the church’s pastor, David Anifowoshe, along with his deputy, BBC reported. The victims were handed over to the care of the authorities.

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According to Voice of America News, Odunlami claimed that the pastors had refuted the kidnapping claims.

The pastors continue to insist that a seven-day program was being held, Odunlami stated. “The person who asserted that Jesus will arrive by September declared he had received a message from God. However, we want to ask the parents in the area more questions. First and foremost, we need the parents to understand this.”

Odunlami claimed that the criminal investigation division of the state had seized control of the case and would inform the public.

The attack occurred on June 5 at the conclusion of Mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, and Christians in Ondo state are still recuperating from that catastrophe.

The attack surprised the Christians because such violence is unusual in that state.

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Christians Rescued From Nigerian Church Basement After Months Of Waiting For Jesus Christ’s Second Coming

A visiting speaker from western Nigeria’s Oyo state, Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Oyo, said at a June 17 funeral service that “over 40 of our departed people” were killed, Morning Star News reports. ABC News cited an unnamed source as saying there were 82 bodies from the attack taken to a local morgue.

Three undetonated improvised explosive devices and fragments of a detonated device were reportedly recovered from the scene.

As many as 4,650 Christians were killed in Nigeria during Open Doors USA’s 2021 reporting period, up from 3,530 the previous year.

More than 2,500 Christians were kidnapped in Nigeria, up from 990 the previous year, according to Open Doors, which monitors persecution in over 60 countries.

Nigeria ranks as the seventh worst country in the world when it comes to Christian persecution on the Open Doors 2022 World Watch List, its highest ranking ever.

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