Sudan: Armed forces target churches and
other Christian buildings
While the self-appointed moral arbiters of the world work themselves up into a frenzy about the “ethnic cleansing” that is supposedly going on in Gaza, but really isn’t, they say nothing about this.
Christian Buildings Targeted in Military Conflict in Sudan
Morning Star News, November 6, 2023:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – At least two Christian buildings were bombed last week amid fighting between rival military factions in Sudan, sources said.
On Wednesday (Nov. 1) a Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) building in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, came under heavy shelling from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) at about 9 p.m. that left its worship structure in ruins, two SPEC sources said.
Several people were at the SPEC compound, which includes an orphanage, but were unhurt.
The SPEC church building was hit three times, causing severe damage especially to its roof. Everything inside was destroyed, including Bibles and hymnbooks, one of the sources said….
A Roman Catholic building in the Al-Shajara area south of Khartoum was bombed on Friday (Nov. 3), injuring at least five nuns, according to a local source whose name is withheld for security reasons. It was unclear whether the SAF or the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) battling each other targeted the structure, and at this writing Morning Star News was unable to independently confirm the reported shelling….
Christian sites have been targeted since the conflict began in April. On May 14 unidentified gunmen attacked the Coptic Orthodox Church of Mar Girgis (St. George) in the Masalma area of Omdurman, according to Egyptian news outlet Watani.
The RSF on May 15 seized a central Khartoum cathedral after having evacuated the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary near the presidential palace on May 14, converting the latter into a military headquarters, according to Egyptian news outlet Mada. Advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) noted the RSF had reportedly been intimidating and harassing those in the church for a week before forcing them to leave.
The RSF reportedly stormed buildings of the Episcopal church on Khartoum’s First Street on May 16 to use as a strategic base, Mada news outlet reported, adding that a vehicle belonging to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum was stolen at gunpoint.
On May 3, a Coptic Church in Khartoum North (Bahri) was attacked, after the Evangelical Church in the same area was bombed and partially burned in April, CSW reported.
On April 28, the Gerief Bible School in the Gerief West area of Khartoum was bombed. Its worship auditorium, halls and student dorms were destroyed, an area source told Morning Star News.
On April 17, gunmen raided the compound of the Anglican cathedral in Khartoum, the United Kingdom-based Church Times reported….
In Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Sudan was ranked No. 10, up from No. 13 the previous year, as attacks by non-state actors continued and religious freedom reforms at the national level were not enacted locally.
Sudan had dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in six years when it first ranked No. 13 in the 2021 World Watch List.
The U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report states that conditions have improved somewhat with the decriminalization of apostasy and a halt to demolition of churches, but that conservative Islam still dominates society; Christians face discrimination, including problems in obtaining licenses for constructing church buildings.
The U.S. State Department in 2019 removed Sudan from the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) that engage in or tolerate “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom” and upgraded it to a watch list. Sudan had previously been designated as a CPC from 1999 to 2018.
In December 2020, the State Department removed Sudan from its Special Watch List….
Burkina Faso: Muslims murder 70 people,
mostly children and elderly, in jihad raid on village
“The authors of these atrocities remain unknown.”
Not really. The groups plaguing the area in question are Islamic jihadis. Authorities may not know which jihad group did this, or are just covering for the jihadis.
At least 70 killed in attack on northern Burkina Faso village on Nov. 5
Reuters, November 13, 2023:
DAKAR, Nov 13 (Reuters) – At least 70 civilians have been killed, mainly elderly people and children, in an attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso earlier this month, a prosecutor said in a statement on Monday.
Unidentified assailants attacked the village of Zaongo in Burkina Faso’s northern Centre-North region on Nov. 5, killing residents and setting property on fire.
A judicial team sent to investigate on Nov. 11 found that at least 70 people had died. Most of the victims were children and elderly, a state prosecutor said in a statement….
“The authors of these atrocities remain unknown. Investigations are ongoing,” the statement said….
Burkina Faso is one of several West African countries battling a bloody jihadist insurgency that took root in neighbouring Mali in 2012….
Nigeria: Muslim ‘bandits’ terrorize communities,
force villagers to pay tax before they’re allowed
to harvest crops
My contact in Nigeria informs me that the “bandits” named in this story are Islamic jihadis who are collecting jizya from the farmers.
“Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
Bandits tax farmers before harvest in Kaduna community
by Amos Tauna, Daily Post, November 10, 2023:
Bandits terrorising Kaduna communities are forcing villagers to pay levies before they are allowed to harvest crops from their farms in the state.
The affected farmers from Kidandan and Galadima villages were being forced, while those from Angular Fala’u and Kerawa villages were constantly harassed and kidnapped while working on their farms.
A source from Kidandan village explained that their people, mostly farmers, pay from N70,000 to N100,000 ($87 - 123 usd) before they can harvest their farm produce.
He explained that those who refuse to pay are either kidnapped, killed or have their farm produce seized by the bandits….
Mozambique: Islamic State jihadis kill three Christians,
president says ‘this is not a religious conflict’
What does he think it is? “The brutality with which the terrorists operate has made it clear that this is not a religious conflict, but a phenomenon driven by factors such as money laundering, drug trafficking, the squandering of mineral resources, among other types of crime.”
What makes Nyusi think the brutality of the Islamic State is against Islam? And what makes him think that “money laundering, drug trafficking, the squandering of mineral resources, among other types of crime” are incompatible with religious objectives? Can he explain why, if this is not a religious conflict, Muslims killed Christians and not, say, fellow Muslims?
Mozambique: Islamic State claims attack that killed ‘three Christians,'
by Geraldine Boechat, MedAfrica, November 14, 2023
The extremist group Islamic State (IS) claimed an attack on the village of Novo Cabo, Macomia district, in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, saying that it killed “three Christians” and set fire to at least 14 houses.
Through propaganda channels, the group assumed that the attack on the “Christian village” took place on Friday November 10, using machine guns by “soldiers of the caliphate”….
In September, the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, acknowledged that terrorism, which has been affecting the province of Cabo Delgado for six years, is a “serious new threat to peace”, but stressed that it is not a religious conflict.
“A serious new threat to peace in Mozambique is terrorism, a phenomenon that has been affecting our country, specifically the province of Cabo Delgado, since October 2017. The brutality with which the terrorists operate has made it clear that this is not a religious conflict, but a phenomenon driven by factors such as money laundering, drug trafficking, the squandering of mineral resources, among other types of crime,” said the President….
Of course, because Islam is a religion of Peace! Yet the terrorists are all Muslims.
Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims go door-to-door
with knives, murder 19 people, kidnap others
Here again, the Allied Democratic Forces have exactly the same motives, goals, and modus operandi as Hamas. This is a global movement, but no one is allowed to notice. The Leftist elites want the jihadis to advance, so as to sow chaos and ultimately destroy the West. Then the Leftists will find that their allies aren’t so happy with them, either.
Suspected ADF terrorists kill 19 civilians in eastern DRC: Civil society official
by James Tasamba, Anadolu Agency, November 13, 2023
At least 19 people were killed and others kidnapped in the latest overnight attack by suspected rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a civil society official said Monday.
“The attackers went door-to-door killing civilians with knives. Provisional toll is 19 civilians killed,” Mabele Musaidi, head of the civil society in Watalinga chiefdom, told broadcaster Top Congo FM.
The attack took place in Kitsanga, a village in the province of North Kivu, at around 11.30 p.m. local time (2130GMT) on Sunday, about 19 kilometers (11.8 miles) north of a crossing with Uganda, perpetrated by suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) a Ugandan terrorist group that has allegiance to the terrorist group Daesh/ISIS.
“People are astonished seeing civilians killed without any military intervention because these assailants were already reported around the neighborhood,” Musaidi said on the attack that occurred in the Watalinga chiefdom in Beni territory….
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