{"id":2236,"date":"2009-02-13T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:26:57","slug":"february-13-2009-chrislam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2009\/02\/13\/february-13-2009-chrislam\/2236\/","title":{"rendered":" Chrislam"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRED DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Nigerians may want for many of life\u2019s basic needs. A house of worship would not seem one of them.<\/p>\n

In the largest city, Lagos, there are traditional, old-line churches. But there also are hundreds of banners and posters that invite worshippers to newer smaller congregations. None is more unusual than this one \u2014 both Christian and Muslim.<\/p>\n

The lectern holds both Quran and Bible. Invocations come loudly from both.<\/p>\n

CONGREGANTS: Allahu Akbar!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pastor Shamsuddin Saka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Roughly half of Nigeria\u2019s 140 million people are Muslim; the other half profess some form of Christianity. It\u2019s been a political fault line over the years, and tensions have often erupted in deadly violence. Just last November, more than 300 people were killed in the town of Jos.<\/p>\n

Pastor SHAMSUDDIN SAKA (Chrislam Minister, speaking at service): Listen to me. I want you to realize that Abraham had many children.<\/em><\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: But the 1,500 or so practitioners of what their preacher calls Chrislam see no religious fault line between the two faith groups. Shamsuddin Saka \u2014 he\u2019s called Prophet \u2014 tells his audience they are all children of Abraham through Judeo-Christian tradition and through Islam.<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA: Abraham is the father of Christianity, the father of Islam. So why the Christians and Muslims are fighting?<\/em><\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Saka was born Muslim, and it was after returning from a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca that he was inspired \u2014 he says instructed by God \u2014 to launch his new ministry<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA<\/strong>: That was about 19 years ago. Then there is a lot of people killing themselves in Nigeria 19 years ago. So I was praying and lying down and the Lord told me, \u201cMake peace between Christian and Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: He said he\u2019s written letters to political leaders and traveled to affected areas when religious violence has broken out, urging reconciliation around common beliefs. But Saka\u2019s most visible impact is in his immediate neighborhood, where he has brought the faiths together in a blended liturgy. It begins each Sunday morning with Quranic prayer in an open floor space that, like a mosque, has no pews. These then give way to prayer with the congregation seated in chairs \u2014 well, sometimes seated.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ishak Akintola<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: This prayer is intense, a trance-like frenzy similar to a Pentecostal Christian service. It climaxes by a sermon from Saka that on this day took almost two hours.<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA (speaking at service): Alleluia! <\/em><\/p>\n

CONGREGANTS: Alleluia!<\/em><\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: As different as Christianity and Islam are, there is some common ground.<\/p>\n

Dr. ISHAK AKINTOLA<\/strong> (Lagos State University): The Bible, you know, concentrates on teachings of love, that\u2019s what Jesus says in Mathew chapter 5, that you love your neighbor and you even love your enemy. Now you find the Quran saying exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: The Quran says the same thing?<\/p>\n

Dr. AKINTOLA<\/strong>: Yes, yes. \u201cPay evil back with goodness.\u201d If you do that, those who used to hate you before, those who are your enemies before will so become your friend. So the Bible [and] Quran say the same thing.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Islam was brought here by Arab traders 10 centuries ago, Christianity by European colonization starting in the 15th century. Each has been interpreted and adapted to local needs and customs. That\u2019s noteworthy in the way Islam is sometimes practiced here, free of the rigid dogma often associated with it.<\/p>\n

Dr. MARA LEICHTMAN<\/strong> (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University): According to Islam, the Prophet Muhammad was the final prophet but certainly not the only prophet, and they believe in Jesus and all of the other prophets of Judaism and Christianity that came before the Prophet Muhammad. So it\u2019s nothing foreign to a Muslim to believe in Jesus, to pray to Jesus or some of the other prophets, to light a candle for the Virgin Mary, for example, as I\u2019ve experienced Muslims do in churches in Senegal. They believe, in some cases in Africa and various African counties, in what I call \u201cspirituality without boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Mara Leichtman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: In a land where spirituality is a dominant force in people\u2019s lives, she says economic hardships may also push people to try new ideas. Nigeria has vast oil wealth but only a few have benefited. Per capita income is about $85 a year, for example, and life expectancy a mere 45 years<\/p>\n

Dr. LEICHTMAN<\/strong>: If they\u2019re poor, if they\u2019re suffering from HIV AIDS, if they\u2019re trying to understand a changing political situation, finding a new religion is one way of coping with the situation, of looking for new leadership of trying to have control on their own through prayer, through different rituals of something that may not necessarily be controllable.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Many who come to Chrislam are praying for what Saka calls deliverance \u2014 from illness, for example. Cawakalit Adecunji, who was born Muslim, came to Chrislam 15 years ago when she couldn\u2019t have children.<\/p>\n

CAWAKALIT ADECUNJI<\/strong> (through translator): I now have children. I came and saw that miracles are performed here. Those who didn\u2019t have children have children. Those who are lame are walking, and the blind are seeing now.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: At the service, there are petitions for miracles of health and wealth \u2014 or at least improved finances<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA<\/strong> (speaking at service): Delay is not denial<\/em><\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Delay is not denial, Saka tells his congregants, as he urges prayer and patience. Some people do come up to testify to miracles in their lives \u2014 a child conceived or a business deal. Such \u201cdeliverance\u201d is mostly associated with some Christian churches, but Saka says it\u2019s not foreign to Islam.<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA<\/strong>: Islam is a religion of peace, of love, of miracles. When you\u2019re talking about miracles, Islam is a miracle itself. The founding of the Quran itself is a miracle.<\/p>\n

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“Miracles are performed here.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: And congregants have taken to heart Saka\u2019s message that to get back one must first give, but he denies that he personally benefits from these gifts. In this milieu of extreme haves and have-nots, Saka insists he always had.<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA<\/strong>: Listen to me, I\u2019m a millionaire before my call. You know, we don\u2019t collect much money. We collect 50, 10 naira, 20 naira. And this money \u2014 this is not my only source of income.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: His fortune came long before his call to ministry, he says, from a real estate business. The Hummer he drives was a gift from two followers whose petitions were answered, and he\u2019s ready for the next automotive miracle.<\/p>\n

Pastor SAKA<\/strong>: Do you like it?<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: One miracle even the skeptics give Saka is this congregation and how people see themselves.<\/p>\n

(to unidentified male congregant): Are you Christian or Muslim?<\/p>\n

UNIDENTIFIED MAN<\/strong>: Whatever you call me, I am.<\/p>\n

DE SAM LAZARO<\/strong>: Saka\u2019s Chrislam is not widespread, but even the skeptics say he\u2019s discovered the innate tolerance that\u2019s often overshadowed by violence across religious lines in a service that\u2019s part Muslim, part Christian \u2014 and wholly West African.<\/p>\n

For RELIGION &ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, this is Fred De Sam Lazaro in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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