'Blood of Jesus!' - the last words of a murdered female pastor in Nigeria

The female pastor hacked to death in Nigeria on July 9 shouted Jesus' name repeatedly during her last moments.

Eunice Mojisola Olawale, 41-year-old deaconess of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abuja and wife to the church's pastor Olawale Elisha, died at the hands of Islamists as she made her rounds of morning evangelism.

"My wife loved Jesus so very much," the bereaved husband told Morning Star News.

He also said that those living around the area where his wife died overheard her last words.

"They said she was shouting, 'Blood of Jesus!'" shared Elisha.

The slain evangelist kept repeating the words until she took her last breath.

Authorities already arrested six Muslims from a mosque in Kubwa's Gbazango area. Elisha previously reported that his wife had told him about some people at the mosque who had "made comments" about her preaching.

The pastor said he wished that his wife's killers would repent and receive God's salvation.

"My desire is that our persecutors get to know God — our desire is to see God arresting them one by one to confess Jesus Christ," he said.

Elisha believes that only through Jesus' salvation would Satan and hell be defeated. Desiring for the killers' persecution, he said, would only condemn more lives to hell.

The pastor recalled what Jesus told His followers in John 16:1-2. Elisha said that even before Jesus left His disciples, He warned them about the persecution His followers would have to suffer in His name.

Elisha said, "He would not leave us in ignorance — that a time is coming when people will drag us out of synagogues or churches to kill us and think that they are rendering service to God, because they don't know Him or the Father."

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) also spoke out after the deaconess' murder to denounce the string of unprovoked attacks on Christians by Muslim extremists as well as the government's inability to prevent them.

"Nigeria is dancing a macabre dance of death," a statement by the organization depicted a grim picture on the nation's fate.