The slaughter of Christians has become a regular occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa, the Barnabas Fund reports, and the “cause is Islamism.”
The slaughter of Christians has become a regular occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa, the Barnabas Fund reports on Saturday, and the “cause is Islamism.”
Mourners gather for the funeral of Florence Masika and Zakayo Masereka during their burial rituals in Mpondwe on June 18, 2023. Florence and Zakayo have been killed near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo by fleeing assailants whom the authorities believe to belong to the Allied Democratic Forces , a militia based in DR Congo.
Terrorist groups affiliated with the Islamic State or al-Qaeda “have proliferated across sub-Saharan Africa,” the group observes, leading some observers to make “sobering predictions of an African caliphate stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.” Massacres like that in Uganda are often blamed on “economic downturns, marginalization and lack of opportunity, corrupt or authoritarian government, or environmental problems that reduce the supply of arable and pastoral land,” but the simple fact is: “the victims were Christians who were targeted for that very reason,” the report points out.
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