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Open Doors International, a worldwide organization which supports Christians who suffer persecution and discrimination for their faith, reports that the bodies of 70 Christians were found in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). They had been beheaded by jihadists in the latest horror of the ongoing Islamic genocide of Christians in that country and elsewhere throughout Africa.
According to local sources, at around 4 a.m. last Thursday (13 February) militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – a group with direct ties to the ISIS (Islamic State) terror group – seized 20 Christian men and women from their homes in Mayba in northeast DRC. Later, the militants surrounded the village and captured 50 more believers. All 70 were held hostage for a short period and then taken to a Protestant church in nearby Kasanga and slaughtered, reportedly with machetes.
You wouldn’t know any of this by checking in with the mainstream media, partly because they don’t care about the massacre of Christians anywhere in the world, partly because they can’t figure out how to blame Israel and the Jews for the beheadings of African Christians, and partly because they’re too busy ginning up outrage over Trump firing IRS employees and dismantling the DEI grift.
But some accounts on social media tried to raise awareness. The X account “Libs of TikTok” tweeted, “Seventy Christians were found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were reportedly hostages of the Islamist group ADF—an ISIS affiliate. Why isn’t the MSM covering this story??”
Pro-life activist Lila Rose posted about the massacre as well: “Horrific. 70 Christians were brutally beheaded by an Islamist group inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo Where’s the media outrage? Pray for persecuted Christians.”
According to the 2025 CIA Factbook, the population of the DRK is 93 percent Christian and only 1.3 percent Muslim. And yet the population of 115 million is terrorized by that tiny percentage of Islamic supremacists. The Counter Terrorism Guide of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence states that ISIS-DRC, or the ADF,
is one of the deadliest militant groups in eastern Congo. The group began as an antigovernment insurgency in Uganda and was publicly recognized by ISIS leaders in Syria as an ISIS branch in 2019. ISIS-DRC follows ISIS’s strict interpretation of Islamic law and aims to extend ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate into central Africa.
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ISIS-DRC has a history of indiscriminate killings, ambushes, and kidnappings against Congolese citizens, regional military forces, and UN personnel in the DRC and Uganda. Its attacks killed approximately 4,000 civilians from 2014 to 2020. In 2021, the branch began using IEDs to conduct attacks in Uganda.
Open Doors reports that ADF militants in the country’s northeast are a significant reason why DRC rose six places to number 35 in the latest World Watch List of countries where Christians face persecution. Last year, 355 were killed there for their faith, compared to 261 the previous year, while an estimated 10,000 were internally displaced – ten times more than in 2023. Houses have been looted and burnt, schools relocated, churches and health facilities shuttered, and some Christian villages abandoned altogether.
“Prior to the outbreak of violence, one church denomination had 25 churches in the Beni area; today, they have eight,” reads a report from Persecution.org. “Another denomination had 54 churches and now have 11. Other denominations report similar patterns.”
Open Doors goes on to note that this last year has seen an escalation in attacks against Christians from the ADF:
Coordinated attacks have killed dozens, displaced thousands and left believers living in fear. Christians in the DRC have faced high levels of violence for several years, but this year the attacks against followers of Jesus have been even more brazen and shocking.
The March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group, reportedly supported by Rwandan government, also targets Christian civilians in the Congo, making the situation even worse for Christians:
Converts from Islam and indigenous religions face pressure from their families to return to their old faiths. Catholic church leaders who speak out for fair elections risk harassment. This mix of militant threats, family pressures and political interference creates a dangerous and fearful environment for Christians in Eastern Congo.
In mid-June of 2024, the ADF claimed responsibility for attacks in the DRC that resulted in the deaths of nearly 150 people since the beginning of the month, including on June 7th when at least 41 were killed, some of whom were found bound and decapitated.
In the first two weeks of August 2023, the ADF claimed 55 deaths, 19 in a single attack. They murdered 72 believers during two weeks in March and 80 more over ten days in April.
“We don’t know what to do or how to pray; we’ve had enough of massacres,” said an elder of the CECA20 church, an evangelical community in Central Africa.
Riadh Jaballah, Voice of the Martyrs Canada’s VP of International Ministry and Operations, told Mission Network News back in 2023 that Islamic doctrine inspired the terrorists’ savagery:
I [recently] discussed [this persecution] with an imam, and he said, “We have steps before we kill Christian.” If [a Christian] repents, changes his faith, and becomes a Muslim, it’s fine. If not, they (Muslims) have all this authority from their god to kill that Christian.
Todd Nettleton of Voice of the Martyrs echoed that: “There is an element to this that is very much Christian persecution and Christians being targeted as they try to create an Islamic caliphate and a place where Sharia law is followed.”
Elites in the media and academia endlessly demonize “Eurocentric” (meaning “white”) nations for their purported “colonialism” and “imperialism,” but you will never hear one word from them about the long, genocidal history of colonialism and imperialism which marks Islamic supremacism from its very origins through the present day.
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Where is the government of a country that is supposed to be 90% christian in all of this? They should be capable of whiping out these islamomaniac murderers. Why haven’t the christians banded together to protect one another and fight off this enemy? I’d like to know.
A giant misinterpretation of Jesus’ teaching has led many Christians into the fatal error of pacifism.
I have been a Christian now for 44 years. It is the Job and Paul aspect of Christianity. It’s the motto of “The Lord Giveth, and The Lord Taketh Away, Blessed be the name of the Lord”. Below are the verses that are the root of the doctrine”
The story of Job is that God truened him over to Satan to be tortured both physically and psychologically.
I was in prison when I came to know Jesus and was healed from Mental illness and criminal insanity. What I did not buy into is the suffering part of it.
Philippians 1:29 “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;”
“If they hated me, they shall also persecute you” is a quote from the Bible, John 15:20
1 Peter 5:10 – But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Romans 8:18 – For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
1 Peter 4:12-19 – Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: (Read More…)
John 16:33 – These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
You are right not to buy into the suffering part of Christianity. Leftists have commandeered some scriptural passages to glorify passivism and suffering as something to be desired. The pacifist Christianity we have today was completely foreign to and unknown by Christians until very modern times.
Christians will suffer, and the biblical passages about suffering are given to help the Christian deal with it – not to glorify it.
I think I’ve heard it said that one factor is that there is often such strong loyalties among the various tribal groups and territories, etc that it can be kind of a highly balkanized environment even though it’s a Christian majority population overall. But how accurate that it is, I’m not sure. I’d be wary of reducing it down to only that.
It’s 100% accurate, it was noticed from the time of first contact by Europeans. Also the bloodbath that often resulted from the Balkanization
Why! For the same reason Islamic terror easily conquered the middle east, north africa, Constantinople, 95% of Spain, 90% of the balkans and almost got Vienna ….twice.
Chistains are weak.
Hitler did curse Germans for not being more like the slimes.
If anyone still thinks Islam is a religion of peace, as “W” assured us on the night of 9/11, he is not paying attention.
So where is the Phony Pope and the Vatican over all this? Making their Offerings to Satan?!
OH COME ON PLOVER… the pOPE will be outraged when he hears about this slaughter of his Flock! He’ll condemn that evil religion as much as he condemned Hamas’ October 7th! Other Christian massacres are quickly condemned. (OK…. SARCASM!)
I’ve never read any condemnation by this FAKE pOPE for many of these massacres! He instead invites the Genocidal Terrorists to the Vatican with a smile! Shouldn’t he convert the followers of a Madman and False Prophet or are they Converting the Infidel! He is after all, a leader in Liberation Theology.
The FAKE pOPE was quick to blame Israel when a couple of Christians in Gaza were killed. WEIRD! I don’t recall any condemnation against Hamas for October 7th, and if there was, it would eventually blame Israel. Beheaded Christians? NADA!
“Isn’t it Ironic that Godless Leftist Vampires, who always Cringe at the sight of a Crucifix, love the pOPE?” sc
They love those who are their own.
Like other sub-Saharan African colonies, western civilizational practices were incompatible with the indigenous populations there.
European colonies of settlement (most British) must be distinguished from those of extraction. Settlement colonies did better than extraction colonies, but both ultimately fail in Africa.
Here is a book that analyzes Congo from that perspective:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Belgian-Congo-as-a-Developmental-State-Revisiting-Colonialism/Kisangani/p/book/9781032254319?gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn_ezg43ViwMVRDKtBh3Wjx4FEAAYAiAAEgLiMfD_BwE
When do we, as Christians, get the green light from God and act on it. I mean really act on it. Maybe he already has. Are we just too dumb to realize it.
I did not join a Lutheran Church to become a pacifist. I don’t give a sh*t what the ELCA says. 50% of my church are pacifists. I have no use for them. And I don’t their permission anyway.
Typo alert: And I don’t need their permission anyway.
All of our mainline denominations have to fight wokeness. You might enjoy listening to The King’s Hall podcast.
https://www.kingshall.org/media
If the link does not translate through posting, search for “King’s Hall podcast.”
” . . . and partly because they’re too busy ginning up outrage over Trump firing IRS employees and dismantling the DEI grift.”
These same people showed no outrage when thousands of people lost their jobs because they refused the risky Covid shots. In fact, they seemed to enjoy the firings. They also expressed no regret when millions of small businesses were forced to close during Covid, many never to open again.
Where is the vocal condemnation of this atrocity by the Vatican or Bishops? To busy trying to save their tax money for the NGO griff.