THE General Overseer of Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, Pastor Yohanna Burua has donated 100 plastic kettles and prayer mats to a mosque in Kaduna.
The pastor, while donating the items to the Chief Imam of the mosque on Saturday, said the gesture was aimed at promoting love among the followers of the two most populous religions in the country; Islam and Christianity.
Burua noted; “We came to donate these plastic kettles and prayer mats to the mosque because we all worship one God and we are one family.
“Churches and mosques are holy places of God. Immediately after the religious crisis in Kaduna and the post-election violence of 2011, I donated money to some Imams to re-construct their demolished mosques that were in Christians’ domain.
‘The idea was to show how both Muslims and Christians could learn to forgive, tolerate, love and accommodate one another as well as to preach against attacking holy places.”
He said the division of Kaduna State as a result of religious and political crises was a total setback to peace and stability in the country, considering how southern Kaduna is highly dominated by Christian settlers, while the northern part of the state is also dominated by Muslims.
“As a result of this, both faith now open their schools in their areas, making citizens to see one another as enemies. If this is not tackled now, it would surely cause a great damage to the country,” he said.
The Pastor disclosed last year, he was invited to over 60 maulud celebrations (Birth of the Holy prophet mohammad S.A.W) and this year also I attended over 10 different maulud celebrations in Kaduna and some other neighbouring states, adding that he did that because the bible taught christians to celebrate with their neighbours and also to mourn with them when something bad happen to them.”
The pastor, while donating the items to the Chief Imam of the mosque on Saturday, said the gesture was aimed at promoting love among the followers of the two most populous religions in the country; Islam and Christianity.
Burua noted; “We came to donate these plastic kettles and prayer mats to the mosque because we all worship one God and we are one family.
“Churches and mosques are holy places of God. Immediately after the religious crisis in Kaduna and the post-election violence of 2011, I donated money to some Imams to re-construct their demolished mosques that were in Christians’ domain.
‘The idea was to show how both Muslims and Christians could learn to forgive, tolerate, love and accommodate one another as well as to preach against attacking holy places.”
He said the division of Kaduna State as a result of religious and political crises was a total setback to peace and stability in the country, considering how southern Kaduna is highly dominated by Christian settlers, while the northern part of the state is also dominated by Muslims.
“As a result of this, both faith now open their schools in their areas, making citizens to see one another as enemies. If this is not tackled now, it would surely cause a great damage to the country,” he said.
The Pastor disclosed last year, he was invited to over 60 maulud celebrations (Birth of the Holy prophet mohammad S.A.W) and this year also I attended over 10 different maulud celebrations in Kaduna and some other neighbouring states, adding that he did that because the bible taught christians to celebrate with their neighbours and also to mourn with them when something bad happen to them.”
Receiving the gift items at his mosque at Tudun Wada in Kaduna metropolis, Sheik Abdullahi Salihu Maibarota, expressed joy over the kind gesture saying, “this is the fisrt time in the history of the state that a christian leader and his team would make such a donation, God grace, peace has come to stay in Nigeria,
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