(03/01) Day of Prayer for Nigeria - URGENT

Nigeria is currently experiencing a great spiritual upheaveal and unrest . There has been much violence erupting against Christians, and some counter violence against Muslims occurring on several fronts. Churches have been burned, many people killed and there is a great stirring up by political forces against religious minorities. Many factors have combined to create this hostile environment, one of them being the fall out from the danish cartoons that have incited Muslims to recent violence across several nations.

Quoted from CSW

"... Sources in northern Nigeria report that at least 30 churches and 250 shops and houses were destroyed in Borno State, when a peaceful protest in the capital city Maiduguri turned violent and a crowd armed with sticks, machetes and iron bars rampaged through the town destroying Christian properties and targeting members of the clergy..."
http://www.csw.org.uk/latestnews/article.php?id=480

However this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there are other factors that have created this volatile situation, many groups have been working long and hard to turn the nation of Nigeria into an Islamic nation.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide has informed us that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) have designated 1 March as a day of prayer for Nigeria.

Remember this nation and pray for it's people and the breaking down of those strongholds that have set itself against the Kingdom of the most high God on March 01/2006!

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (New King James Version)

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,