Kaduna, yesterday donated foodstuff to six Muslim communities in Kaduna as assistance for less privileged persons. The items include: bags of sugar, millet, maize, and beans.
Donating the items, Rev. Yunusa Nmadu, the Senior Pastor of the church, said the donation was to assist less privileged Muslims with whom they had been living together over the years.
Nmadu said the gesture was part of efforts to re-establish the long-standing relationship between the Muslim and Christian communities in the area, especially in view of the current security challenges.
“People of other communities will learn from what happened today. We grew up together without any differences, our parents taught us to live together but along the line the relationship went sour.
“We are here to let the people know that we are one people in spite of our different religions, we love everyone.
“If God wanted us to be Muslims, all of us would have been Muslims, and if God wanted us to be Christians, He would have created all us Christians.
“We are here so that the World will know that we are of different religions but are living together as a people and not as Muslims and Christians,“ the pastor said.
Receiving the items in his palace, Sarkin Dutse, Alhaji Shu’aibu Balarabe, said that the Emir of Zazzau had advised the people to live in peace with one another.
Balarabe said there was no compulsion in religion and advised his subjects to live in peace together in spite of their different faiths and to be partners in peace building.
He said it was their duty to protect all the churches and the mosques in the area.
“We have been living together in peace but unfortunately, the crises experienced in the state seem to be dividing us. We know that all the crises were not motivated by religion,“ he said.
The Imam of Tudun Nupawa Mosque, Malam Attahiru Liman, said most of the youths, who indulged in violence, neither attended church services nor observed regular Muslim daily prayers. (NAN)
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this is a challenge to all islamic organisation
May God bless that Pastor. He is truely a man of God. His efforts must be appreciated and reciprocated. We need his likes for peace in our nation and the whole world.
A welcome development it is. Bt, it is worthy to note that the problems in the north are nothing short of political problems hiding under the cloak of religion.
However, i pray that God should shower His mercies upon us all and help us put an end to the madness.
wonderful! This is a sign of unity. May GOD help us.
if and only the political leaders in northern nigeria will stop using religions and come out and do the right thing. we know is political conflict not religion crisis we love our selfs, i love nigeria my country am proud to be 1
gr8 effort from our christian brodas/sisters.these singular gesture of brotherliness I’ll go a long way in mending the religious devide we’v cum 2 be associated with in our country’s recent history!finally, a breath of fresh air is starting 2 evaporate!
Am sure its not WhoLeheartedly rather a hidden agenda to…
yes i luv it pastor. but lets put hands 2gether pray harder so dat God should erase our prblms such as hypocracy,decieving,accptin of rumour mongaring nd 2 stop collectn bribe wen votin. tanks Nigerians nd tanks pastor.
Other Kkaduna communites like Gonin Gora, Unguwar Romi, Tudun Wada, Rigasa, Unguwar Muazu, Trikania, and Badarawa should emulate Tudun Nupawa by restoring the past inter-religious harmony that was existing in Kaduna. The ECWA church has set a good precedent that other Christian and Muslim organizations need to follow for lasting peace to reign in Kaduna and other states.
going by religious pedigree, no religion truly preaches violence of inhuman dimensions as practiced in nigeria. But my main concern with d citizenry is d shameless hipocricy of keeping double faces…while keeping a decietful smile, a typical nigerian is thinking of how to quickly kill his brother from another religion…O God,help convert them to humanity. Ekwa Church thumbs up!
I am touched by this sense of harmony. @ Leke; U could call it ‘stupid’, but am sure God’commandment in both Bible and Quran that we should love our neighbours as our selves isnt ‘stupid’.