At least 15 civilians were killed and two others injured during a “terrorist” attack on a Catholic church during Sunday mass in northern Burkina Faso, a senior church official said.

“We bring to your attention a terrorist attack which the Catholic community of Essakane village was the victim of today, February 25, while they were gathered for Sunday prayer,” the vicar of the Dori diocese, Jean-Pierre Sawadogo, said in a statement sent to AFP.

The provisional toll was 15 killed and two wounded, he added.

Calling for peace and security in Burkina Faso, Sawadogo denounced “those who continue to wreak death and desolation in our country”.

Essakane village, where the attack took place, is in what is known as the “three borders” zone in the northeast of the country, near the common borders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

This is just the latest in a series of atrocities blamed on jihadist groups active in the region, some of which have targeted Christian churches while others have involved the abduction of clergy.

Burkina Faso is part of the vast Sahel region, which has been locked in a battle against rising violent extremism since Libya’s civil war in 2011, followed by an Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012.

The jihadist insurgency spilled over into Burkina Faso and Niger from 2015.

When Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in 2022, it was the country’s second coup in less than a year — both triggered in part by discontent at the government’s failures to quell the jihadist violence.

Around 20,000 people in Burkina Faso have been killed in that violence, while over two million have been displaced.

AFP

matify83:
I thought they said these attacks have subsided since France was expelled from the country?

Where are the WAGNER TROOPS when you need them!

matify83:
I thought they said these attacks have subsided since France was expelled from the country?

Where are the WAGNER TROOPS when you need them!

sketching:
Terrorists kill 15 worshipers at B’Faso church


https://punchng.com/terrorists-kill-15-worshippers-at-bfaso-church/

ghiloman28:
Unfortunately those Animals killing people will call thierself Muslims when we read it in the book that even at war you must not kill woman, children, Animals or cut trees morever all the war the prophet fought was defensive wars he never attack.

May the departed souls rest in peace.

ghiloman28:
Unfortunately those Animals killing people will call thierself Muslims when we read it in the book that even at war you must not kill woman, children, Animals or cut trees morever all the war the prophet fought was defensive wars he never attack.

May the departed souls rest in peace.

Ogbuu101:

You mean the prophet who once had 900 Qurazya men beheaded in one night was also fighting a defensive war?
RIP to the dead
Una sabi lie ee😂

ghiloman28:
Unfortunately those Animals killing people will call thierself Muslims when we read it in the book that even at war you must not kill woman, children, Animals or cut trees morever all the war the prophet fought was defensive wars he never attack.

May the departed souls rest in peace.

ghiloman28:
Unfortunately those Animals killing people will call thierself Muslims when we read it in the book that even at war you must not kill woman, children, Animals or cut trees morever all the war the prophet fought was defensive wars he never attack.

May the departed souls rest in peace.

ghiloman28:
Unfortunately those Animals killing people will call thierself Muslims when we read it in the book that even at war you must not kill woman, children, Animals or cut trees morever all the war the prophet fought was defensive wars he never attack.

May the departed souls rest in peace.

Mightymanna:


Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said:

الَّذِيْنَ يَصُدُّوْنَ عَنْ سَبِيْلِ اللّٰهِ وَيَـبْـغُوْنَهَا عِوَجًا ۚ وَهُمْ بِا لْاٰ خِرَةِ كٰفِرُوْنَ 
"Who averted [people] from the way of Allah and sought to make it [seem] deviant while they were, concerning the Hereafter, disbelievers."
(QS. Al-A'raaf 7: Verse 45)

In another verses Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said:

يُرِيْدُوْنَ لِيُطْفِـئُـوْا نُوْرَ اللّٰهِ بِاَ فْوَاهِهِمْ وَا للّٰهُ مُتِمُّ نُوْرِهٖ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكٰفِرُوْنَ
"They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it."
(QS. As-Saff 61: Verse
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said:

وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ اللّٰهَ غَا فِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ الظّٰلِمُوْنَ ۗ اِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ لِيَوْمٍ تَشْخَصُ فِيْهِ الْاَ بْصَا رُ 
"And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror]."
(QS. Ibrahim 14: Verse 42)

Despite trillion dollar campaign to ternish Islam through media, terrorism etc Allah will perfect his Religion and make it supreme because it is the truth and all these senseless bombings and killings does not stop million of people from accepting Islam in Europe and U.S, they are just using uneducated Muslims to execute their sinister agenda.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said:

"It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it."
(QS. Holy Qur'an 9: Verse 33)