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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the constant stream of death tolls from rebel attacks reads like a Twitter feed — 40 killed in this town, nine killed in that village. On Saturday, at least 31 people were butchered in eastern DRC, mostly women and young children.

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Many of these attacks are carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist rebel group. In addition to murdering villagers, attackers often loot and torch homes.

Todd Nettleton with The Voice of the Martyrs says, “There are multiple reports when they go into a village of them singling out Christians for death [and] allowing Muslims not to be killed or even to go free.

“So 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.”

In total over the last two weeks, 72 Christians have been killed in eastern DRC. Thousands of refugees are displaced or fleeing to neighboring Uganda and Tanzania.

These attacks are having their desired effect. The Church in eastern DRC is dwindling.

Nettleton says, “In the area where this attack just happened, there is one denomination that before the violence broke out this denomination had 25 churches in this area. Today they have eight. Another denomination before the violence had 54 churches. Now they have 11.”

Yet, the story isn’t over. God is still at work in DRC, and the persecuted Church needs our support and prayers!

“Those brothers and sisters are a part of our family, and if a part of our family is suffering, of course, we should care. We should care very much about that.”
Nettleton says, “I think one of the ways we can pray is for the government response to this…. ADF is active on both sides of the border. The DRC government and the Ugandan government have tried to cooperate to get more stability, to get more control and more peace in this region. We can pray for those efforts to be effective.”

For persecuted Christians, Nettleton asks, “Pray for a sense of God’s presence with them even as they go through major suffering and these kinds of attacks. Pray that their faith will remain strong.”

Look at this guy's threads. They're all anti-islam. All his threads are anti Islam and Seun and his moderators are not going to do a thing about it.

You mean like this ones down sandy soil...?

I don't even understand why you have moderators. Almost 400 topics. All of them Anti Islamic. It's a shame.

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Look at this guy's threads. They're all anti-islam. All his threads are anti Islam and Seun and his moderators are not going to do a thing about it.

Posting about the activities of terrorists is apparently "anti islam". So you agree that terrorists represent islam-- good to know.

BetterHeadline:
Posting about the activities of terrorists is apparently "anti islam". So you agree that terrorists represent islam-- good to know.

Are you really this jobless? Over 400 topics about Muslims and you're not even Muslim? It's not your fault. Seun and his moderators who do not even know what they're doing are the ones I blame for giving you the platform to propagate your hate message. And you wonder why there's so much tribalism and hate messages against Muslim on nairaland. Seun and his mods have failed at their jobs. 😁

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BetterHeadline:
Again, you are agreeing with me that terrorists represent islam. I appreciate that.

Still the fastest growing religion in the world. 😁

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BetterHeadline:
Lol.

learn to have an open mind. You can't understand something if you hate it.😁

Islamic teachings and tenets are sound and can promote ones spirituality, but the killings I don't understand it

This is so sad! What is going on in this country?

A religion that believes that all "infidels" or people not part of that religion should be killed or maimed is nothing short of BARBARIC & is UTTERLY USELESS!!!!! ....