“This tells us that in little ways, God is at work. Even in places that are remote, even in places that you think are having a Christian minority, God is at work,” the bishop said. “And we thank God for the harvest that we have. Harvest in terms of the increasing number of members that we have.”
“We believe that with time, we will have a greater number of people who are converting to the faith, a greater number of people who are going to be baptized. We believe that we’ll have a greater number of people who will be more committed to their faith,” Musa told ACI Africa.
He continued: “The challenge we’re having, which affects evangelization, is the challenge of insecurity.”
The bishop noted that in the southern part of the state thousands of people had already been displaced by those he described as “bandits.”
He said that during the Lenten season, he visited 45 families who were displaced from local governments in Katsina state. “And they are not just the only ones,” Musa said. “There are about 300 communities that have been displaced.”
“This affects the work of evangelization because these people have a church. They had to vacate the church to go somewhere else and live,” he said. “They want to go back to their homeland, but it is difficult because the insecurity challenge is still there.”
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