The Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, which include children, from a church in which they were constrained withinside the south-western country of Ondo.
Some of them are believed to were there for months.
A police spokesperson said plenty of them had been counseled to count on the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in April and had abandoned university to witness the event.
The raid came after a mother complained her children were missing, and he or she or he concept they were withinside the church.
Police say they will be investigating suspected mass abduction after the raid on the Whole Bible Believers Church withinside the Valentino area of Ondo Town.
The pastor of the Pentecostal church, David Anifowoshe, and his deputy were arrested, at the same time as the patients were taken into the care of the authorities.
“Preliminary studies observed out that one Pastor Josiah Peter Asumosa, an assistant pastor withinside the church, end up the handiest who counseled the contributors that Rapture will take place in April, but later said it is been changed to September 2022 and counseled the more youthful contributors to obey only their parents withinside the Lord,” said police press officer Funmilayo Odunlami.
In all, police rescued 26 children, eight teens and 40 3 adults, she added.
The Second Coming is a Christian perception withinside the move again of Jesus Christ after his Biblical ascension to Heaven. Rapture is the idea that Christian believers may be taken to Heaven at the Second Coming.
Anxiety has been immoderate among Christians withinside the dominion seeing that a deadly attack on a few different church.
At least 50 people were killed in a mass taking pictures and bomb attack at St Francis Catholic Church withinside the town of Owo on 6 June.
Federal authorities suspect the Islamic State West Africa Province of carrying out the massacre.
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