MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—For years Christians in Nigeria’s Borno State have watched ISIS terrorists burn their churches, but now they say the government itself is tearing them down. The demolition of a church in the city that has weathered attacks by the murderous insurgency known as Boko Haram for 12 years has ignited a fire storm of controversy. Gov. Babagana Umaru Zulum claims the law is on his side in the destruction of the church, but a popular local pastor says his church is victim of a “subtle jihad.” “We are just facing a subtle jihad by the government of Borno, a fight against the Church, and only God in his comfort will deliver us all,” Rev Joel Stephen Billi said to The Epoch Times just days after the state government demolished his church Aug. 5 in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State. Even worse, after a crowd of protestors at the scene …
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