Muslims Murder More Nigerian Catholics, Myanmar Church and Convent Burned Down
It was, as usual, dangerous to be Catholic in many places around the world last week, including Communist China. For instance, on Jan. 19, 11 people were murdered by Islamic jihadis in Nigeria, most of the victims being Catholics. And a Catholic community had to flee their homes as the Burmese army torched a Catholic church and convent and terrorized a village in Myanmar.
Islamic jihadis have killed over 63,000 Christians, and kidnapped or displaced millions more in Nigeria within the last 14 years. Nigeria is the most dangerous place in the world to be Christian.
“[Catholic News Agency via JihadWatch] At least 11 people, most of them Catholics, were killed Jan. 19 when alleged Fulani herdsmen attacked a village near a refugee camp in Nigeria’s Makurdi Diocese, a diocesan official has reported.
In an interview with ACI Africa, CNA’s sister news partner, Father Moses Aondover Iorapuu, the diocese’s vicar general, recounted the ‘horrifying’ persecution that Catholics were subjected to during the attack.
‘The images of the attack are horrifying, and I keep saying that not even ISIS is capable of such brutality,’ he said. ‘After killing, these guys decapitated some and took the parts away as proof to whoever is the sponsor’…‘The response from the police and the military as always: normal late arrival at the scene, and the attackers remain unidentified’…
The Jan. 19 attack on the village saw the inhabitants ‘forcefully driven from their homes by these herdsmen’.”
Boko Haram, usually the biggest Muslim terroristic offender in Nigeria, began its insurgency in 2009. Aondover specifically noted that Nigerian Christians feel “abandoned by our government and the international community.” That same “international community” seems completely unphased by the horrific genocide in Nigeria—in fact, the United Nations recently released a report telling Nigerians to have fewer babies. I guess the UN, which also loves genocidal China, would see the genocide of Nigerian Christians as convenient depopulation?
Myanmar (Burma) also saw an anti-Catholic tragedy this past week:
“[Breitbart] The Burmese army torched a historic Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay this week and also set fire to a convent of religious sisters…The nuns fled from their demolished convent along with some 3,000 villagers, who also lost their homes to fires started by the military…
‘The soldiers want to crush any resistance from the civilians,’ [Sister Rita] said. ‘They enter the villages, occupy buildings like schools and churches and camp there. From there, they carry out raids from house to house to flush out the rebels.’”
We should pray for the Catholics and other Christians persecuted and murdered around the world for their faith.