Nigerian police have rescued dozens of people, many of them children, from a church where they had been told to wait for what they believed would be a divine happening, a police statement said.
Police raided the Whole Bible Believers Church in southwestern Ondo State on Friday after a tip that children were being kept there against their will.
Police said they had been kept in the church after being told they must wait for Rapture, a belief among some Christians that they will ascend to heaven at the end of the world. "Another family who was also around during the rescue said their daughter... dropped out of school due to the strange teachings of the pastor and left home in January."
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