by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – A teenage Christian girl who was active in her church remains in captivity after Islamic terrorists kidnapped her from her grandmother’s home in Nigeria five months ago, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Fifteen-year-old Adanna (the children’s names in the ICC report were changed for security reasons) was abducted in February, together with her 7-year-old brother Isaac. Adanna and Isaac lived with their grandmother Abishag Sambo.
In a statement to ICC, Sambo said she was overpowered by the terrorists who arrived at her home and threatened her before taking the children.
The police were called and, following a negotiation, Isaac was returned two weeks after his abduction, ICC said. However, Adanna was forced to “marry” one of her captors and convert to Islam.
Attesting that Adanna was active in her church and loved singing in the choir, Sambo told ICC she worries about her granddaughter. “Being a minor, a young child … she will not be able to stand her ground because of the fear [and] threat to her life,” Sambo said.
Sambo added that what happened to her grandchildren is not unusual. “They [Islamic terrorists] take people’s children, keep them for a week or so, they indoctrinate them, they brainwash them, they tell them … Quranic citations. And sometimes they use threats, too. They threaten the child [saying] that … [if] you say that you want to go back to your parent[s], we will come back in the night and kill you and kill your parents.”
Tens of thousands of Nigerian Christians have been murdered or abducted by Islamic terrorists since jihadist ideology took hold in the country in 2009.
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