A miraculous rescue took place after 72 Muslim-background Christian women and children captured by Boko Haram were about to be gunned down, it was reported in mid-March.
After being tortured, four male leaders of the group were told at gunpoint to renounce their faith in Christ and revert to Islam. When they refused, holding fast to their Saviour, the men were shot in front of their families and friends. The following week, the wives of the four martyred men were also ordered to renounce their faith or their children would be executed.
As the mothers struggled under this terrible burden into the night, the children came running in and said that the Lord Jesus had appeared to them and ‘all would be well’. The children said the Lord Jesus had told them not to fear, that He would protect them.
