Do not go, children ...

The 160 millionth Nigeria consists of approximately equal in terms of the number of Muslim and Christian communities. Now difficult times have come for Nigerian Christians. In many cities, the Islamist group "Boko Haram", destroying Christians and their shrines, is atrocious. Jos, in the center of the country, is the city of the victorious religious segregation. Here, a visible wall has already been erected between the two communities - from police checkpoints, barbed wire, metal detectors. And also - separate schools, hospitals, shops ...

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, like the Constitution of the Russian Federation, allows one person to be the president of the country no more than two in a row. At the same time, surrounded by the presidents of each of the countries, after each of the terms, the dominant place is occupied by conversations about the successor. It is characteristic that for the People’s Democratic Party ruling in Nigeria, as well as for United Russia, the number 24 is a landmark. At the NDP congress on December 24, 2006, President Olusegun Obasanjdo said: “I want to congratulate my brother, who will become my best successor.” As the “brother” was represented by the Governor of the northern state of Katsin Umaru Yar-adue, who was not in any kind of relationship with the president, was little a sign of the country's political elite. But it was he who became the next President of Nigeria. On September 24, 2011, Vladimir Putin was proclaimed the old and New President of Russia at the YP Congress.

Mass in the church of St. Teresa. This is the first Catholic Church in Jose, built in 1923

The State School in the Aguan Rogo area is open to everyone, but mostly Muslims go to it: Christians no longer live here

A resident of the village of Kakuku examines his house, which suffered during the attack of the Muslim nomadic tribe of Fulani on the Christian village, as a result of which more than 30 houses were destroyed and 8 inhabitants of the village were killed

A sermon in the Church of St. Teresa in Jose

Jos. The Christian quarter of the cabgong

David Rafael demonstrates the scars obtained as a result of the terrorist attack in the Church of the Heart of Christ on December 24, 2010.

Mass in the Church of St. Teresa

The Muslim district of Duts UKU suffered as a result of the attack of the Christian community after the municipal elections of 2008. More than 380 houses were destroyed, 20 people were killed

Photos: Alex Masi