More than 43 worshippers, including 19 women and nine children, were massacred after Islamic terrorists affiliated with the ISIS-aligned Allied Democratic Forces attacked a Catholic church during a prayer vigil early Sunday morning in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
On the morning of July 27th, as many Congolese parishoners were gathered in the church for an all-night prayer vigil, ADF terrorists stormed in and slaughtered dozens of congregants with machetes before burning parts of the church to the ground. Others were kidnapped.
This was according to a report by the U.N. Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, referred to as MONUSCO. The Islamists also looted and burned several homes and businesses in the area of the church.
MONUSCO reports:
“According to official reports, the attack by elements of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group resulted in the death of at least 43 civilians (19 women, 15 men, and nine children). Most of the victims were reportedly killed with bladed weapons inside a place of worship. Several individuals were abducted. Homes and shops were also set on fire, further worsening an already extremely concerning humanitarian situation in the province.”
Deputy MONUSCO chief Vivian van de Perre said in response to the attack:
“These targeted attacks against (defenseless) civilians, particularly in places of worship, are not only appalling but also in violation of all human rights standards and international humanitarian law.”
Pope Leo XIV expressed his “deep sorrow” for the devastating attack on the church in a July 28 telegram to the archbishop and president of the Congolese Bishops’ Conference.
The telegram read:
“His Holiness Pope Leo XIV learned with dismay and deep sorrow of the attack perpetrated against the Parish of Blessed Anuarite in Komanda, which caused the death of several faithful gathered for worship. May the blood of these martyrs become a seed of peace, reconciliation, fraternity, and love for the Congolese people.”
The Allied Democratic Forces is an Islamist terror organization that formed in Uganda in the 1990s with the goal of overthrowing the Ugandan government and replacing it with an Islamic regime based on Sharia. The ADF has since expanded its attacks into the Congo and became affiliated with ISIS in 2019.
Please pray for the persecuted Christians around the world. They are coming under new attacks every day in Nigeria, Syria, Congo, among other places. They need us to lift them up in their time of trouble.
The corporate media devotes very little coverage to these atrocities against Christians because it doesn’t fit the narrative they promote, that Islam is a “religion of peace.”
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