Open Doors reports that the bodies of 70 Christians have been found beheaded inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the latest devastating attack on believers by Islamists in the northeast of the country.
According to sources in the field reporting to Open Doors, the attacks happened at around 4 a.m. last Thursday, February 13, when suspected Muslim jihadists from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group with ties to the Islamic State (ISIS), approached homes in Mayba, saying: “Get out, get out and don’t make any noise.”
Twenty Christian men and women came out with their hands up. They were immediately taken captive.
Shaken by this incident, people from the local community gathered to figure out a plan of how to rescue those held captive.
But the Islamic terrorists surrounded the village and captured another 50 believers.
What happened next was so horrific I will spare you the details.
Suffice it to say that all 70 of those kidnapped were taken to a Protestant church in Kasanga where they were tortured and beheaded.
The mainstream media likes to stay quiet about Christian persecution around the world. They’d rather focus, for whatever reason, on the Middle East and the Muslim-Israeli wars. Rarely do Christians caught in the crossfires of Israel-Muslim wars even get mentioned. In the eyes of many, it’s like they don’t exist. Imagine how that must feel.
The director of the Kombo primary school, which belongs to the CECA20 church (Evangelical Community in Central Africa), says that even before the incident involving the beheadings of 70 Congolese Christians, churches, schools and health centers in the area had all shut their doors because of the chaotic security situation.
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