“Nigerian Pietà:” Reactions trail photo of a widowed mother holding the lifeless body of her son, shot by suspected Fulani Islamist militants in Jos
A Catholic priest has likened the photo of a Jos mother, who was inconsolably holding the lifeless body of her young man, Mr. Promise, a victim of the recent sporadic gunfire by suspected Fulani Islamist militants, to Michelangelo Buonarroti’s 1498 Pietà, which depicts Our Lady holding the lifeless body of Jesus.
