Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name resembles a personal name or title; weighed in the review
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- No website or social page was provided
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for this congregation by its full name, by its neighbourhood (Naibawa, Kano) and by its denomination, and we found no page, directory entry, map listing or news mention for a "Christ Apostolic Church Sanctuary of Mercy" in Naibawa or anywhere in Kano state. What we did confirm is that the wider denomination is well established in the area: Christ Apostolic Church runs one of its nine regional administrative units from a headquarters in Kano, at Aitken Road, Sabon Gari, and other Kano assemblies such as the CAC English Chapel Kano DCC headquarters keep active Facebook pages. Other "Mercy"-named CAC assemblies we found are in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states, not Kano. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: The name follows the normal pattern of a Christ Apostolic Church assembly, a large and well-established Trinitarian Pentecostal denomination in Nigeria whose regional headquarters for the area is in Kano, so the denomination and the location are entirely plausible. However, our independent search found no page, directory entry or map listing for this particular "Sanctuary of Mercy" assembly in Naibawa or anywhere in Kano state, and no website or
We have asked this church for one piece of extra evidence: a photo, a link, its denomination, or a church that can vouch for it. The moment we can verify, this report is upgraded. Without a response, the listing is paused after 14 days.