President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the peaceful coexistence of people practicing Islam and Christianity in Nigeria. Buhari in his opinion on religion published in the Church Times, UK’s largest Anglican newspaper on the 30th November, 2018, said though a Muslim, he is also a descendant of Abraham, just like Ajayi Crowther. Buhari urges Nigerians to mix with people of to different religions, noting that, that’s the only way great possibilities can be reach. Read full opinion here “In 1844, the Revd Samuel Ajayi Crowther returned home to Yoruba land (now part of modern-day Nigeria). Twenty years earlier, he had been kidnapped and sold to European slave traders who were bound for the Americas. He was freed by an abolitionist naval patrol, and received by the Church Missionary Society. There, he found his calling. “Crowther made his voyage home to establish the first Anglican mission in Yoruba land. He came with the first Bibles translated into Yoruba and Hausa languages. He o...
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