BAUCHI, Nigeria, December 13 (Compass Direct News) – Ten persons have been killed and three churches set on fire after Muslim students in this city began a rampage on Tuesday (December 11) because unidentified people pulled out two foundation blocks of a high school mosque under construction. Area Muslims joined the attacking students, resulting in the deaths and damages in the city, including dozens of homes belonging to Christians. The identity of nine of the 10 people killed has been kept secret as the Bauchi state government has ordered security agents to bury the bodies in a common grave, eyewitnesses to the burial said today. The body of the 10th person has been identified by eyewitnesses only by his surname, Bogoro, a Christian security agent. A teacher at the Government Day Secondary School-Yelwa (also known as Baba Tanko Secondary School), who pleaded that his identity remain undisclosed out of fear of Muslim attack and government penalty, said he witnessed the sparking of the rampage when Muslim students claimed that the foundation of the school mosque had been pulled down. Muslim students began attacking Christians in their classes, he said. “They broke chairs and desks,” he said. “They also attacked their Christian colleagues with knives and daggers. I had to run for my dear life because the situation became uncontrollable.”

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Yesterday prior to attending my home church for worship services, I was watching the news and saw that there was a shooting at Youth With A Mission (YWAM), and to my shock, later in the day there was another set of murders at Ted Haggard's former church, New Life Church in Colorado Springs. (You can download the press conference here in pdf form)

A few years ago some of my friends were missionaries in the Philippines when the tragedy of the Burnham's took place. Today, after many years, there is news that 14 of the members of the Islamic militant group Abu Sayyaf have been sentenced to life in prison. Mission Network News has more on the remarkable story.

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This morning as I was going through the news I came across this "opinion" letter sent to The Daily News Record, and I thought it would be interesting for you to see, because apparently some Christians are not helping. Here's the letter in its entirety.