The Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry of Nigeria in Kaduna has donated over 1,000 packages of food and drinks to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), destitute and widows to mark Sallah celebration on Wednesday.
Pastor Yohanna Buru, the general overseer of the church, has explained the move by sincere desire to promote religious tolerance, better understanding and peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria.
NAN reports that Buru led a team of Christian and Muslim youths to distribute the food and clothes to inmates of Kaduna Central Prison and IDPs at Badarawa, Ungwan Dosa, Barakallau and Rigasa, all located in the northern part of Kaduna metropolis.
He said: “We see it as a duty to support our brothers with food so that they can join other Muslims around the world to celebrate Eid-El-Fitr.
The bible teaches us to love our neighbours as we love ourselves; as such, as Christian clerics we are simply obeying the teaching of the holy book.
This is the fifth year we are distributing food and drinks to the less privilege, inmates and widows during Sallah period as well as donate clothes to orphanages.”
One more cleric, Pastor Maxwell Sanda, has expressed his gratitude to Muslim brothers and sisters who join Christians to celebrate Christmas and New Year.
“Today we are here to extend hands of love to the needy and those in distress as God will expect of all humanity,” he said.
Mamam Aisha Gamborin Gala, an IDP from Borno state and mother of seven children, thanked the church for its kindness: “No one has brought us food except you. We are grateful and call on good Samaritans in the state to remember us while eating their delicious meal,” she said.
The church members also visited Mallam Nigger Skill Acquisition Centre in Rigasa and distributed food to drugs addicts undergoing rehabilitation in the centre.
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