Borgu Mosque attack: Niger PFN condemns abduction of worshippers, demands safe rescue

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Niger State Chapter, has condemned the abduction of scores of Muslim worshippers during Jumu’at prayers successful Borgu Local Government Area, describing the onslaught arsenic an battle connected the sanctity of places of worship and the conscience of Nigerians.

PFN State Chairman, Pastor PeteRock Sadiq, made the condemnation connected Tuesday successful Minna portion addressing journalists connected the increasing information concerns successful the state.

Armed men had reportedly invaded mosques successful Dekara, Kpenya, Sabon-Gida and Gidan-Zana communities during Friday prayers connected August 21, 2026, and abducted worshippers arsenic they near the mosques.

Sadiq said reports indicating that the fig of abducted persons could tally into hundreds were profoundly disturbing, urging the Federal and Niger State governments to intensify efforts to unafraid their contiguous and harmless release.

According to him, “A location of worship is ineffable ground. It is wherever a radical laic down their defender earlier God.”

“To tempest it portion radical are connected their knees, to crook a spot of supplication into a spot of capture, is an battle not lone connected those communities but connected the conscience of everyone who believes successful God.”

The PFN president stressed that the onslaught should not beryllium viewed done a spiritual oregon governmental lens, insisting that unit against worshippers was unacceptable careless of whether the vic...