JOS, Nigeria, November 9, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Following the announcement by Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram that it will keep a Christian high school girl as a slave, church leaders in Nigeria said they are not giving up on pressing for her rescue.
Leaders of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) have intensified discussions with government officials urging that they continue talks with Boko Haram to win the release of 15-year-old Leah Sharibu and other Christian girls and women being held captive by Boko Haram, an ECWA spokesman told Morning Star News.
“The leadership of ECWA has continued to mount pressure on the Nigerian government to continue with discussions with the Islamists who are holding Leah Sharibu captive,” the Rev. Romanus Ebenwokodi said. “We strongly believe that as long as Leah and others are still alive, it is possible to secure their release.”
Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, is also holding Christian UNICEF worker Alice Ngaddah as a slave. Kidnapped along with two other aid workers in March, Ngaddah is a member of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN).
“The church and Leah’s parents believe that God can make it possible for Leah and others in captivity to regain their freedom if we don’t give up,” Ebenwokodi said. “The hope in Jesus Christ, which is the hope of glory,…
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