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Islamists storm into Catholic church during Sunday prayer vigil and massacre 43 congregants in DRC, where violence against Christians has been escalating for months

More than 43 worshippers, including 19 women and nine children, were massacred after Islamic terrorists affiliated with the ISIS-aligned Allied Democratic Forces attacked a Catholic church during a prayer vigil early Sunday morning in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

On the morning of July 27th, as many Congolese parishoners were gathered in the church for an all-night prayer vigil, ADF terrorists stormed in and slaughtered dozens of congregants with machetes before burning parts of the church to the ground. Others were kidnapped.

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While the world focuses on the Middle East, the Islamists step up their brutal efforts to drive Christians out of Central Africa

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.

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