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The latest bloodbath went down on September 8 in Ntoyo village, North Kivu, where monsters believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) butchered at least 64 people. These thugs proudly wave the ISIS flag like it's their local franchise of terror.
According to locals spilling the grim details to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the attackers didn't just kill; they torched homes and smashed skulls with guns and hammers. Many of the victims were gunned down or bludgeoned while mourning at a wake. That's the kind of heartless evil that we saw in Israel on October 7, 2023 against Jews.
This isn't a one-off. The DRC's Christians are being hunted.
Mid-August saw 52 Christians massacred in North Kivu by the same ADF scumcrumpets. In July, 43 were slaughtered at a prayer vigil. And at the start of the year, 70 Christians were found beheaded in a Protestant church. Beheaded! That's how jihadis roll.
Bishop Melchisédech Sikuli Paluko of Butembo-Ben, speaking to ACN, tried to offer some comfort amid the carnage: "To all the families affected by this umpteenth and horrible carnage … and to all the faithful of the parish, we express our spiritual closeness. May God, the Master of Life, strengthen us through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, consoler of the afflicted, and lead us beyond the desert of present-day suffering to lasting peace."
Bishop Melchisédech Sikuli Paluko of Butembo-Ben, speaking to ACN, tried to offer some comfort amid the carnage: "To all the families affected by this umpteenth and horrible carnage … and to all the faithful of the parish, we express our spiritual closeness. May God, the Master of Life, strengthen us through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, consoler of the afflicted, and lead us beyond the desert of present-day suffering to lasting peace."
Noble words, but they underscore a sickening truth: this is happening over and over to Christians and Jews.
It's not just the DRC. Nigeria's Bishop Wilfred Anagbe told the British House of Lords earlier this year that massacres of Christians during festivals like Christmas have become "customary" in parts of his country. Customary. As in, just another Tuesday for these jihadist scum. Nigeria, despite its massive Christian population, ranks seventh on Open Doors' list of worst places for anti-Christian persecution, thanks to relentless Islamist violence.
The DRC is no picnic either as it's climbed to No. 35 on the same list, up six spots from last year, because the body count keeps rising. This isn't merely a statistic, it's a religious war, and it's getting uglier by the day.
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It's not just the DRC. Nigeria's Bishop Wilfred Anagbe told the British House of Lords earlier this year that massacres of Christians during festivals like Christmas have become "customary" in parts of his country. Customary. As in, just another Tuesday for these jihadist scum. Nigeria, despite its massive Christian population, ranks seventh on Open Doors' list of worst places for anti-Christian persecution, thanks to relentless Islamist violence.
The DRC is no picnic either as it's climbed to No. 35 on the same list, up six spots from last year, because the body count keeps rising. This isn't merely a statistic, it's a religious war, and it's getting uglier by the day.
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