Africa: Increase in attacks against Christians

A recent report by a US-based global security research group has provided evidence that Christians in sub-Saharan Africa are being widely and consistently targeted by the Islamic State (ISIS).

  Three attacks in the first week of July resulted in the deaths of 17 Christians in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in northeastern DRC.

  Meanwhile, the fighters based in the Democratic Republic of Congo also carried out the Kase school massacre in western Uganda, where more than 40 of the victims were Christian students.

  Meanwhile, according to the Cabo Ligado research group based in Mozambique, the dangers of ISIS terrorism to Christians have increased.

  Mozambican ISIS fighters captured two fishermen on July 9, according to a report on the website.  One of them, who was a Muslim, Azad, the other was a Christian. They beheaded him.

  The rise of violent Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa is a threat to people of all faiths, including Muslims who have no interest in jihadism and wish to live in peace with their neighbors.

_{Source: barnabasaid}