At least 50 victims were recorded in a shooting in a church in the state of Ondo in South East Nigeria on Sunday in the city of Owo.
On Pentecost Sunday a group of armed men opened fire and threw explosives on the faithful during mass in the church of San Francesco Xavier.
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"It is incredible that someone came with the intention of killing everyone present in the church, they shot those who tried to escape and those who were still inside the church, throwing dynamite to blow up the altar," said the bishop of the church.
Diocese Jude Arogundade. This type of desecration is the work of demon-possessed people, "he continues.
The perpetrators of the massacre and the matrix of the attack remain unknown.
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These episodes rarely occur in this area of the country, less frequented by the bandits and terrorists of Boko Haram than in northern Nigeria. Last week, another tragedy occurred in a church in Port Harcourt, 350 kilometers south of Owo.
The dynamic that could have led to the two massacres would be attributable to the eternal conflict between the extremist Fulani pastors of the Muslim religion and the Catholic majority of the Yoruba.
At the center of the dispute would be the struggle for the conquest of the earth, a stake that is rising more and more with climate change.
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