BEVERLY HILLS, July 13, (THEWILL) – A former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie has commiserated with the family of the slain evangelist, Deaconess Eunice Olawale, saying it was a pity that she lost her life while evangelising for Christ.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG preacher was gruesomely killed in the early hours of last Saturday while evangelising the gospel a few metres away from her house at a junction close to the Kubwa New Market, Gbazango in Abuja by unidentified miscreants.
While calling on the Federal Government to provide adequate security for every Nigerian citizen irrespective of creed and ethnicity, Okogie used the occasion to caution all Christians to always apply wisdom whenever they have reasons to preach the gospel in hostile environments.
Stating that he will be very slow to assume that the killing was an extension of an agenda to Islamise the nation, he posited that one has to use his common sense in the quest to win souls for the kingdom of God and that the woman had the free will to use wisdom when she saw the young lads coming her way.
The former CAN president, who urged Christians to refrain from any act of vengeance, noting that “God says vengeance belongs to Him and no man should assist God to fight His battle,” and that the current agitations against a purported plot to Islamise the nation will amount to nothing.
