Churches Burned in Nigeria

Monday, December 5, 2011

By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent

GEIDAM, NIGERIA (Worthy News)-- At least four people were killed in attacks in the city of Geidam, Nigeria, after vandals set fire to at eight churches, destroyed a police station and then set local shops ablaze.

The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which has already killed more than 100 people in November, claimed responsibility for these attacks that will continue for "as long as our members arrested by the Nigerian authorities remain in detention."