A bit of good news about the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram

[gratuitous]

Group of Chibok schoolgirls are released from captivity

http://www.brethren.org/news/2016/group-of-chibok-schoolgirls-released.html

The Nigerian government says 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014 have been freed in negotiations with the insurgents, according to reports from media outlets today including the Associated Press and ABC News. The negotiations were carried out with help from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss government.

Church of the Brethren staff have received confirmation of this news from Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). EYN president Joel S. Billi sent confirmation after he talked with Chibok parents and the Bring Back Our Girls organization in Nigeria. The majority of the girls abducted from the school in Chibok are from Nigerian Brethren families.

A list of the girls' names is at the link. At the specific request of EYN, our congregation has been in prayer for Ruth Amos, whose name is not on this list.