Open Doors reports that the bodies of 70 Christians have been found beheaded inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the latest devastating attack on believers by Islamists in the northeast of the country.
According to sources in the field reporting to Open Doors, the attacks happened at around 4 a.m. last Thursday, February 13, when suspected Muslim jihadists from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group with ties to the Islamic State (ISIS), approached homes in Mayba, saying: “Get out, get out and don’t make any noise.”
Twenty Christian men and women came out with their hands up. They were immediately taken captive.
Shaken by this incident, people from the local community gathered to figure out a plan of how to rescue those held captive.
But the Islamic terrorists surrounded the village and captured another 50 believers.
What happened next was so horrific I will spare you the details.
Suffice it to say that all 70 of those kidnapped were taken to a Protestant church in Kasanga where they were tortured and beheaded.
The mainstream media likes to stay quiet about Christian persecution around the world. They’d rather focus, for whatever reason, on the Middle East and the Muslim-Israeli wars. Rarely do Christians caught in the crossfires of Israel-Muslim wars even get mentioned. In the eyes of many, it’s like they don’t exist. Imagine how that must feel.
The director of the Kombo primary school, which belongs to the CECA20 church (Evangelical Community in Central Africa), says that even before the incident involving the beheadings of 70 Congolese Christians, churches, schools and health centers in the area had all shut their doors because of the chaotic security situation.
Field sources told Open Doors that, as of Tuesday February 18th, some families had not been able to bury their dead because the area was still not secured. Many Christians have now left their homes and fled the area.
An elder of the CECA20 church told Open Doors: “We don’t know what to do or how to pray; we’ve had enough of massacres. May God’s will alone be done.”
The Christians in DR Congo not only have the Islamists to deal with, they are also often targeted by the M23 rebels, who fight against the country’s government. As one example, in February 2024 M23 rebels found 14 Christian men working their farmland in North Kivu. The rebels demanded the men join their ranks. When they refused, the rebels killed them.
In June 2023, Human Rights Watch reported human rights abuses by M23 rebels in the Congo, including unlawful killings, rape and other war crimes.
Please pray for the Christians of Central Africa. There is no easy believism there like we have in America and many other Western countries. Being a Christian can cost you your life.
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Leo – The mainstream media likes to stay quiet about Christian persecution around the world. They’d rather focus, for whatever reason, on the Middle East and the Muslim-Israeli wars.
That’s because the fundamental beliefs of Christianity are completely antithetical to the “values” of the left so the media really doesn’t care if Christians in Africa and elsewhere are brutally slaughtered. Notice also the silence of the international courts. No call for arrests of the terrorist leaders for their crimes against humanity even though thousands have been murdered every year through Islamic jihad.
Looking at the soft persecution in this country, Biden and his FBI unleashed a war on American Christians: spying on Catholics at Latin Masses, arresting and sentencing praying pro-life activists to years in prison, directing banks to report to the feds online purchases of religious materials. If Trump hadn’t won, the next escalation by a Democrat progressive left administration could very well have been criminalizing the scriptures as hate speech with jail time for owning a Bible.
Some statistics from the 2025 World Watch List:
Add to that the skyrocketing levels of antisemitic attacks since 10/7/23 and it’s obvious that Satan has declared a war against Christians and Jews that won’t stop until Jesus returns.
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Wait, you mean they didn’t get raptured out of all their troubles? Quick, someone tell that to all these heretical evangelicals here in Laodicea.
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“Wait, you mean they didn’t get raptured out of all their troubles?”
Good point, Jerry.
The church has always gone through tribulation and will go through the great tribulation mentioned by Christ in his Olivet discourse.
However we will be raptured when Christ comes with his angels before God pours out his wrath on those who remain on this earth after the rapture.
It will be just like how the righteous man , Lot and his family were taken by the angels out of Sodom before the wrath of God was unleashed on that city, killing everybody who remained in it. There was no second chance to repent for those who remained in Sodom after Lot had been removed.
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Thanks Leo for highlighting this atrocity.
Here’s some interesting data on Nigeria.
“Since the outbreak of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009, over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria. The violence has also led to the destruction of 18,000 Christian churches and 2,200 Christian schools1. The situation remains dire, with over 1,000 Christians killed since the beginning of 2023. It’s a tragic and ongoing crisis.”
That’s just Nigeria. I remember somebody saying that Nigerians commit murders in the most brutal manner.
Why aren’t Christians forming action groups to protest against this ongoing terror against fellow Christians? There is an ongoing agenda to displace Christians despite the amount of good being done in the country by Christians.
I wonder how many billions of dollars have been donated by Christian organisations to Nigeria and other African countries. When I was a young child in school, our teacher used to sell sweets to raise money for ‘the black babies’ in Africa. That was in the early sixties. I sometimes think of Africa as being a ‘black hole’ when it comes to absorbing so much money and showing so little progress in return.
African culture is partly to blame where in many cases the women do all the work. I remember watching footage of a woman who would get up in the morning and prepare food for her family before going out to work on the farm. Meanwhile her husband lived a leisurely life. I remember one man who left his wife because she wasn’t a good enough provider.
Having said that, I also remember three Christians in my church who were from Nigeria and who were studying to be aircraft mechanics so that could take those skills back to Nigeria and work there. I wonder what is there fate now.
In protest I think that Christian charity groups need to do more to highlight the atrocities being committed against Christians in Africa and to be a voice in the western media, etc.
THIS ATROCITY SHOULD BE HEADLINE NEWS!!
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Thanks Leo for highlighting this atrocity.
Here’s some interesting data on Nigeria.
“Since the outbreak of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009, over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria. The violence has also led to the destruction of 18,000 Christian churches and 2,200 Christian schools1. The situation remains dire, with over 1,000 Christians killed since the beginning of 2023. It’s a tragic and ongoing crisis.”
That’s just Nigeria. I remember somebody saying that Nigerians commit murders in the most brutal manner.
Why aren’t Christians forming action groups to protest against this ongoing terror against fellow Christians? There is an ongoing agenda to displace Christians despite the amount of good being done in the country by Christians.
I wonder how many billions of dollars have been donated by Christian organisations to Nigeria and other African countries. When I was a young child in school, our teacher used to sell sweets to raise money for ‘the black babies’ in Africa. That was in the early sixties. I sometimes think of Africa as being a ‘black hole’ when it comes to absorbing so much money and showing so little progress in return.
African culture is partly to blame where in many cases the women do all the work. I remember watching footage of a woman who would get up in the morning and prepare food for her family before going out to work on the farm. Meanwhile her husband lived a leisurely life. I remember one man who left his wife because she wasn’t a good enough provider.
Having said that, I also remember three Christians in my church who were from Nigeria and who were studying to be aircraft mechanics so that could take those skills back to Nigeria and work there. I wonder what is there fate now.
In protest I think that Christian charity groups need to do more to highlight the atrocities being committed against Christians in Africa and to be a voice in the western media, etc.
THIS ATROCITY SHOULD BE HEADLINE NEWS!!
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Since this is ISIS-West Africa operations, the question should be asked who is financing ISIS operations here and why? We already know that all the modern jihadi movements, including ISIS, have been proxies for the US and other western powers, (maybe even corporate entities, which have considerable power). We used ISIS to overthrow Libya in 2011, Iraq and Syria in 2011-2025 (ISIS murdered both Christians and non-Sunni Muslims). Nigeria is oil-rich, so are the neighboring countries that are experiencing jihadi activity. An East/West Great Power competition for Africa is at the heart of this. (e.g. Business Day article dated Aug 7, 2023 “Analysis: Africa and Rising Threat of Proxy Wars”)
Back in the 1980s an Ethiopia refugee told me that the superpowers east and west armed both sides in his county’s civil war in that decade. “If they would stop doing this, we wouldn’t have these wars or they wouldn’t be so bloody.”
Pray that outsiders stop financing and/or arming proxy armies like this. This is very dangerous, and not only because of jihadis. I repeat here from an earlier comment: The last Great Power competition for Africa led to WWI. It can led to another world war again.
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Islam is incompatable with Christianity and Western culture. Islam is a predatory ideology of intolerance, dominance, stealing, murder and enslavement. How much more evidence does the world need after 270 million are dead after 1400 years? This will all end at return of Messiah Jesus.
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