May. 02, 2024 | Chad
Learning to Let Go of Vengeance
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Church
deacon Akua Kwame was attending a morning prayer meeting in May 2023
when radical Fulani tribesmen attacked his village. When the militants
shot bullets and arrows through church windows and tried to break into
the building, the pastor yelled for everyone to get out. As they fled,
the pastor and the church administrator were shot and killed. Akua said
several arrows pierced his clothes, but none hit him. Later that day, he
was tasked with the painful job of identifying the bodies of 12 people
killed in the attack, including a two-year-old child. “I asked myself,
‘Why are we suffering if God loves us?’” Akua recalled after the attack.
“What I have learned through this is to let go of the vengeance that I
feel in my heart.” Akua has since received healing care provided by the
global body of Christ. He asked for prayer for comfort, that God will
provide their church with a new pastor and for his village to recover.
Click here to find out about Christian persecution in Chad and learn how to pray.
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| Christians in southern Chad are regularly attacked by marauding Fulani militants. |
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