Prayer is requested as EYN temporarily closes Kulp Bible College in face of Boko Haram advance
Prayer is requested for the students and staff of Kulp
Bible College (KBC), and the leadership of Ekklesiyar
Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren
in Nigeria), as the decision has been made to
temporarily close the college. Students will be
leaving for other areas of the country, and
headquarters staff also may be making ready to
leave as Boko Haram forces advance to within
50 kilometers of the EYN headquarters.
KBC and the EYN headquarters are located in Kwarhi, near the city of Mubi in northeastern Nigeria. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” is an insurgent Islamist group that has been carrying out terrorist type violence aimed at creating a “pure Islamic state.”
In related news, Brethren Disaster Ministries is directing $20,000 from the Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) for a joint response by the Church of the Brethren and EYN. This funding will begin a pilot project focused on building temporary care centers for displaced EYN families. (More about this grant will appear in the next regularly scheduled issue of Newsline on Aug. 9.)
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KBC and the EYN headquarters are located in Kwarhi, near the city of Mubi in northeastern Nigeria. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” is an insurgent Islamist group that has been carrying out terrorist type violence aimed at creating a “pure Islamic state.”
In related news, Brethren Disaster Ministries is directing $20,000 from the Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) for a joint response by the Church of the Brethren and EYN. This funding will begin a pilot project focused on building temporary care centers for displaced EYN families. (More about this grant will appear in the next regularly scheduled issue of Newsline on Aug. 9.)
reprinted from Newsline
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