“About 300 of the 586 churches have been either burnt or destroyed with an uncountable number of houses belonging to our members looted or burnt too.”
EYN President, Joel Billi, who gave the statistics yesterday at a world news conference organised by the Dominion in Yola, Adamawa State, said 25,000 members of the church were currently taking refuge in neighbouring Cameroun, while more than 700,000 were in Internally Displaced Persons camps. Billi said the purpose of the news conference was to review and highlight the effects of insurgency and the state of the nation on the church’s activities.
“It could be recalled that EYN has lost over 8,370 members and eight pastors with the numbers increasing on a daily basis. Over 700,000 members are displaced and about 25, 000 are currently taking refuge in Cameroon and Chad Republics. He claimed the EYN is the single Christian denomination worse hit by activities of the Boko Haram terrorists.
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