A tabernacle hosting the Eucharist was stolen early Sunday morning from a parish church in Benin City, Nigeria, with local investigators now looking to find the thieves, and return both the tabernacle and the Eucharist to the parish.
Parish pastor Fr. Anthony Nkom, OSA, told The Pillar that a group of thieves broke into the St. Augustine’s Parish in Benin City, Nigeria at around 3 a.m. on Sept. 17, and left with the church’s tabernacle, containing consecrated hosts.
The pastor said he called the Edo State Security Vigilante Network, a semi-official civilian security network in the southern Nigerian Edo state, to look into the crime.
Nkom said the thieves broke into the church while privately contracted parish security guards had moved away from their posts during the early morning hours.
“Because it was raining, one of the security guatds moved to the parish…
