WEA Religious Liberty Prayer News – Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Malaysia

According to the Penang State police, on 27 January, 2 men on a motorcycle lobbed fire bombs into The Assumption Church compound.

The incident occurred after a provocative banner was hung by unknown people outside churches in Penang, including the Assumption Church. The banner read: “Allah is great, Jesus is the son of Allah.”

No one was injured in the attack.

Allah is the Arabic word for God and commonly used in the Malay language to refer to God. The government says Allah should be exclusively reserved for Muslims.

Prayer points:

• Pray for the end of religious tension in Malaysia;
• Pray that there would be no outbreak of religiously motivated violence in the country;
• Pray for unity among all people in Malaysia;
• Pray for the LORD’s wisdom and guidance upon the Malaysian Church during this testing period.

1 February, 22 Christians were killed in an attack on a church worship service in the Adamawa State in Nigeria.

According to reports, on 26 January, suspected Islamist rebels armed with explosives and firearms attacked the Catholic church in the Waga Chakawa village by setting off bombs and firing into the congregation.

The rebels then burned houses and took residents hostage during the attack which lasted 4 hours.

The radical Islamist group, Boko Haram, is suspected of carrying out the attack.

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