Recent attacks include 49 Christians killed at a Congo Catholic church, 27 burned alive in a Nigerian village.
By Catholics for Catholics
Faced with a growing number of deadly attacks against Christians in sub-Saharan Africa, the Trump administration vowed to find ways to stop the killings perpetrated by the Islamic State and its allies.
According to Fox News, last week, the White House said, “The Trump administration condemns in the strongest terms this horrific violence against Christians,” after the U.N. reported 49 Christians were slaughtered with machetes on July 27 in and around a church in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All of this happened while Catholic worshipers were praying for peace.
Authorities say the killers were Islamist militants from the Allied Democratic Forces, also known as Islamic State DRC. In Nigeria, a neighbor of Congo, 27 Christians were reported killed last month by Islamist Fulani tribesmen in the village of Bindi Ta-hoss, where residents are mostly Christian. Solomon Sunday, an eyewitness, said, “I advised my family to seek refuge in the church, which seemed the safest place at the time. I lost my wife and second daughter in the attack; they were burned [alive] by Fulani militias.”
D’Young Mangut, a local youth leader who helped recover the cadavers, added, “People are being killed like chickens, and nothing is being done.” John Eibner, president of Christian human rights organization Christian Solidarity International, told Fox News Digital that the massacres of Christians by Islamists have become something common in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, he added that the slaughters are increasing.
“Such grisly proceedings have become commonplace in central Nigeria,” Eibner said. “It is part of a longstanding process of violent Islamization, of ethno-religious cleansing. Last Palm Sunday, 50 Christians were similarly slaughtered in nearby Bassa. Over 165 Christians have been killed in the last 4 months in Plateau State (one of Nigeria’s provinces) alone.”
“Massacres of the sort that happen in central Nigeria are also happening with increasing frequency in predominately Christian places like Congo and Mozambique. There is no simple solution.” Eibner said.
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