 The Christian Association of Nigeria can Katana State Chapter says 13 pastors and priests were killed with over 200 churches shot down and 115 orders burned due to the activities of banditry and insecurity challenges confronting Katana State. The Christian body stated these are the community engagements between the religious leaders clerics and Katana State police commanding Katana State north west Nigeria. Plasticic correspondent Abila Dervay filed in this report and presented from our studio. Katana State has suffered most from banditry with the recent Ikara Mosque attack sent to Raphael Catholic Church in Kamanta, Zango Katav, Chikun and other local government areas that suffered most attacks by terrorists. This led to the displacement of hundreds of children and women living in their ancestral homes and many places of worship to shut down due to fear. Chairman of Khan Katana State Chapter Reverend Joseph Ayyab appealed to the government at all levels and security operatives to intensify their efforts to curtail the menace. The Katana State Commissioner of Police, Musa Galba says they are working tirelessly with sister agencies to reduce the activities of bandits to the barest minimum, promising to protect lives and properties in the state. Establish a relationship between the police and the religious leaders is what we call community policy and I urge them to give us useful information because without useful information we can never achieve our objectives. Some of the clerics expressed delight in the engagement, saying hate speech and religious ideology feel insecurity. It's not the issue of people taking out drugs, it's the issue of religious ideology. People who think that except you belong to their religious circle you should be an object of faith. This is what the security agents need to cope. We need to talk to both sides, whether Christians or Muslims, that are not stained by the tenants of their religion. Let the world know that there are kind of messages we preach in our churches or in our mosques as Ulamas and Malams that is actually not helping the society at all and in that case some of these messages we preach. If we don't preach peace, if we don't preach love, certainly we will be having hordes in the society. Wild Khan commanded police for strengthening relationships with religious bodies, noting that the synergy would prefer solutions to challenges. The police said intelligence gathering between religious leaders, community and security agencies will help in tackling insecurity in society. Crime has no right. Crime has no religion. Criminals has no compassion. Criminals are evil. They will be able to support that unit to ensure that we keep Kathuna peaceful for the residents to sleep in peace. The parties know that they have over 100,000 of their churches shut down from Brigham Wali to Chukun and Kretin. The churches are no longer there. When you go to many churches now, you will see pastors. They come from churches that have been shut down because they cannot continue. People can tell you hundreds of their churches, as a means of God and many other churches, they can't eat church. They are forced to close down our church because of insecurity. The police engagement with clerics and the Christian body is coming barely a few weeks after bandits attacked a Catholic church parish and killed one seminarian in Fadden, Kamantha, Zangokotav, local government area, Kathuna State.