Atrocity took place during Sunday mass in Essakane village and has been blamed on a jihadi group active in the region.
“We bring to your attention a terrorist attack which the community of Essakane village was the victim of today, February 25, while they were gathered for Sunday prayer,” the vicar of the Dori diocese, Jean-Pierre Sawadogo, said in a statement sent to AFP.
The provisional toll was 15 killed and two wounded, he added.
Calling for peace and security in Burkina Faso, Sawadogo denounced “those who continue to wreak death and desolation in our country”.
This is just the latest in a series of atrocities blamed on terrorist groups active in the region, some of which have targeted Christian churches while others have involved the abduction of clergy.
Burkina Faso is part of the vast Sahel region, which has been locked in a battle against rising violent extremism since Libya’s civil war in 2011, followed by an Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012.
The jihadist insurgency spilled over into Burkina Faso and Niger from 2015.
When Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in 2022, it was the country’s second coup in less than a year—both triggered in part by discontent at the government’s failures to quell the violence.
Around 20,000 people in Burkina Faso have been killed in that violence, while over two million have been displaced.
Latest report on Christian persecution chronicles the rising danger of Islamic militants and autocratic regimes, from Nigeria to Nicaragua.
❖ nearly 5,000 Christians murdered last year,
❖ more than 4,000 detained,
❖ almost 300,000 displaced,
❖ and an estimated 365 million persecuted for their Christian faith.
❖ 1 in 5 Christians are persecuted in Africa
❖ 2 in 5 Christians are persecuted in Asia
❖ 32 out of 50 are Muslim-majority Countries
That means one in seven Christians around the world currently experience high, and sometimes dangerously violent levels of persecution on a daily basis.
Sub-Saharan Africa—the epicenter of global Christianity—remains the epicenter of violence against followers of Jesus, according to the 2024 World Watch List (WWL). The latest annual accounting from Open Doors ranks the top 50 countries where it is most dangerous and difficult to be a Christian.
The concerning tallies of martyrdoms and abductions are actually lower than in last year’s report. But Open Doors emphasizes they are “absolute minimum” figures. It attributed both declines to a period of calm in advance of Nigeria’s last presidential election. Yet Nigeria joined China, India, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia as the countries driving the significant increase in attacks on churches.
Overall, 365 million Christians live in nations with high levels of persecution or discrimination. That’s 1 in 7 Christians worldwide, including 1 in 5 believers in Africa, 2 in 5 in Asia, and 1 in 16 in Latin America.
And for only the fourth time in three decades of tracking, all 50 nations scored high enough to register “very high” persecution levels on Open Doors’ matrix of more than 80 questions. So did 7 more nations that fell just outside the cutoff. Syria and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, entered the tier of “extreme” persecution, raising its count to 13 nations.
North Korea ranked No. 1, as it has every year except for 2022 when Afghanistan briefly displaced it. The rest of the top 10 reshuffled but remained the same: Somalia (No. 2), Libya (No. 3), Eritrea (No. 4), Yemen (No. 5), Nigeria (No. 6), Pakistan (No. 7), Sudan (No. 8), Iran (No. 9), and Afghanistan (No. 10).
The deadliest country for Christians was Nigeria, with more than 4,100 Christians killed for their faith—82 percent of the global tally. Overall, 15 sub-Saharan countries scored “extremely high” on Open Doors’ violence metric. In Mali (No. 14) and Burkina Faso, jihadists exploited breakdowns in government security, while attacks on churches grew sharply in Ethiopia (No. 32).
🔥The world is not giving enough attention it deserved to the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity being committed against Christians of Africa, particularly against ancient Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia, Egypt, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and India.
In Ethiopia alone; From November 2020 till today:
— + 1.5 Million Orthodox Christians brutally Massacred
— Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns Raped and abused
— Over a Million female Ethiopian slaves sold to Arab Muslim countries
— 20 Million Ethiopian Christians are Starving
by the fascist Muslim Oromo army of Nobel Peace Laureate PM Abby Ahmed Ali and his Arab, Israeli, Turkish, Iranian, European, American, Russian, Ukrainian, African allies.
We are living in the 21st century, yet everyone seems to be okay with slavery, persecution and massacre.
All the Hagarites / Ishmaelites; Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, the Emirates, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Algeria and Israel – after the flesh (the Hagarites / Ismaelites with the identity and nature of the flesh) , USA, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, China have marched on Axumite Ethiopia in search of the Ark of The Covenant or Zion; And in the coming weeks and months they are preparing to march once again. The current tragic war in the Middle East is another dishonest sophistic deflection from the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide in Armenia and Ethiopia. Armenia and Ethiopia are the two most ancient Christian nations of the planet.
☆ Radical Muslim terror groups such as Boko Haram and Fulani militants have waged a “20-year genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Over the past 14 years alone, at least 52,250 Nigerian Christians have been brutally murdered at the hands of Islamist militants.
☆ Radical Muslim terror groups such as OLF and Galla-Oromo militants have waged a “130-year genocide against Christians in Ethiopia. Up to 80 million Orthodox Christians massacred.
☆ Adamawa Emirate in Nigeria
☆ The viurtual Oromo Emirate, centered in Adama (formerly Nazareth) in Ethiopia
☆ According to Polish Name Day Calendar, December 24th: Adam, Adamina
🔥 At least 160 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state, survivors and officials said Tuesday in the latest of such mass killings this year blamed on the West African nation’s farmer-herder crisis.
The assailants targeted 17 communities during the “senseless and unprovoked” attacks on Saturday and Sunday, during which most houses in the areas were burned down, Plateau Gov. Caleb Mutfwang said Tuesday in a broadcast on the local Channels Television.
“As I am talking to you, in Mangu local government alone, we buried 15 people. As of this morning, in Bokkos, we are counting not less than 100 corpses. I am yet to take stock of (the deaths in) Barkin Ladi,” Gov. Mutfwan said. “It has been a very terrifying Christmas for us here in Plateau.”
Amnesty International Nigeria’s office told The Associated Press that it has so far confirmed 140 deaths in the Christian-dominated Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of Plateau based on data compiled by its workers on the ground and from local officials, though locals feared a higher death toll with some people unaccounted for.
Some of the locals said that it took more than 12 hours before security agencies responded to their call for help, a claim the AP couldn’t independently verify, but which echoes past concerns about slow interventions in Nigeria‘s deadly security crisis, which has killed hundreds this year, including in Plateau.
“I called security but they never came. The ambush started 6 in the evening but security reached our place by 7 in the morning,” said Sunday Dawum, a youth leader in Bokkos. At least 27 people were killed in his village, Mbom Mbaru, including his brother, he said.
No group took responsibility for the attacks though the blame fell on herders from the Fulani tribe, who have been accused of carrying out such mass killings across the northwest and central regions where the decadeslong conflict over access to land and water has further worsened the sectarian division between Christians and Muslims in Africa’s most populous nation.
The Nigerian army said it has begun “clearance operations” in search of the suspects, with the help of other security agencies, although arrests are rare in such attacks.
“We will not rest until we bring all those culpable for these dastardly acts to book,” said Abdullsalam Abubakar, who commands the army’s special intervention operation in Plateau and neighboring states.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, who was elected this year after promising to help tackle the security challenges that his predecessor failed to address, has yet to make any public comments about the latest attacks days after they happened.
Tinubu’s government and others in the past haven’t taken any “tangible action” to protect lives and ensure justice for victims in the conflict-hit northern region, Amnesty International Nigeria director Isa Sanusi told the AP.
“Sometimes they claim to make arrests but there is no proof they have done so … The brazen failure of the authorities to protect the people of Nigeria is gradually becoming the ‘norm,’” he said.
🛑 Crickets from Pope Fancis who is too busy with global warming.
🛑 The Pope can come out against Israel and bless gay marriage but has no voice over Christian persecution and the slaughter of Christians.
🛑 The Muslim murderers want first and foremost to wipe out the Jews. Next it will be Christians and any person that doesn’t live by the laws of Islam. They hate and target the Hindus in massive numbers as well.
🛑 This is Islam and the terrorist that wants to dominate the world. Willing to kill anyone who is not a Muslim.
🛑 Islam is a vile, violent, hateful and hate-filled “religion” that should be exterminated
🛑 Islam is an anti-human satanic death cult.
🛑 Muhammad was a mass murderer child molester. Historical fact!
🛑 I have personally heard Nigerian priests tell horrifying stories from Catholic pulpits here in the U.S. These stories rarely, if at all, make the newspapers, especially high profile national papers. Of course the government is dominated by non-Christian government officials.
🛑 Worldwide, Christians are by far the most persecuted faith group. far more than Jews or moose slimes yet where is the world outcry from the leftists’ bleeding hearts?
🛑 These poor folks are minding their own business trying to survive and they get slaughtered for it. I’ve met a few African Christians and they are the real deal…not like many USA Christians
🛑 Cannot wait to see all of the demonstrations about this, the ‘outcry’ from the wealthy liberal celebs the bent media, the thousands/millions of placards and messages from around the world about how bad this action is, Oh wait a mo, I hear ‘the sound of silence’.
☪ Islamic Nigeria is the ‘Most Dangerous Place’ to Be a Christian
😈 Prime Minster of the fascist Oromo Regime of Ethiopia, war criminal Abiy Ahmed Ali arrives in Berlin and is greeted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Several leaders of African countries are due in the German capital to take part in the G20’s ‘Compact with Africa’ conference.
In the past 12 months alone, while massacring and starving millions of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians to death, the evil Muslim Oromo PM of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali shakes hands with the following leaders:
☆ Vladimir Putin, Russian President
☆ Joe Biden, President of the US
☆ Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State
☆ Antionio Gutteres, UN Secretary General
☆ Ursula Von der Leyen, EU president
☆ Giorgia Meloni, Italian PM
☆ Emanuell Macron, French Presidential
☆ Catherine Colonna, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs
☆ Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor
☆ Analena Baerbock, German FM
☆ Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director
☆ Ajay Banga, World Bank President
☆ Chinese Leaders
☆ Asian Leaders
☆ Arab Leaders
☆ Turkish Leaders
☆ Iranian Leaders
☆ African Leaders
😮 Mind-blowing, isn’t it?! 😈 This is how the world aka Satan’s kingdom works. Mark my words. These are enablers of Christian genocide on a grand scale. I’m afraid, we will see something happening to President Putin and all the other world leaders soon.
🛑 German Chancellor Traveled to Ethiopia to Meet Black Hitler – But The Genocider Didn’t Show up at The Airport
🔥 Italy invited a fascist war criminal: Look at the Traitor-Genocider in chief, Abiy Ahmed Ali nodding his head like a slave, all the time. Hours later, the Italian government issued a statement saying, We will give you money. What a disgrace, what a scandal!!
😈 If a leader of a country kills one or ten the Luciferians cry about human rights, and warn him in a coordinated manner.
😈 If he kills tens and hundreds of thousands they sanction him and his nation, intervene militarily, and remove him from power.
😈 But, if he kills ‘enough’ people and agrees to follow the depopulation agenda and massacres more than a million, they will be happy, they applaud him, invite him, and give awards to him, remain quite about the atrocities. That’s why no condemnations and statements are made by the UN, AU, EU and Western Embassies in Addis Ababa are issued. They like and celebrate the depopulation genocide of Orthodox Christians!
Visiting monarch speaks of sorrow and deepest regret for past ‘wrongdoings’ under British rule
King Charles, on his first visit as sovereign to a Commonwealth country, expressed regret to the people of Kenya for violence perpetrated by the British before the East African country won its independence. However, the King stopped short of offering the apology that many demanded.
⛔ The State might not apologize for fear the apology might be used in the future to ask for reparations or as a legal tool by the victimized; which is also a reason why apologies aren’t more frequent or seem to be handpicked
If a perpetrator doesn’t apologize, when a crime goes unpunished, it continues to be committed. Denial perpetuates genocide. That’s exactly what Perpetrator Turkey is doing. The Armenian and Ethiopian Genocide is a crime against humanity that continues to be committed because it is denied and its perpetrators have gone unpunished.
👏Well done, Germany! Other nations could learn from Germany’s efforts to reconcile.
How about countries like Italy, France, the UK, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc that have committed massacres and crimes against Africans and Christians? Actually, they are still committing those crimes. This is evident in the two ancient Orthodox Christian countries of Armenia and Ethiopia.
These nations that are deceiving themselves do not think that they have done anything wrong. In this case there is no recognizing the crime; thus no apology is deemed necessary. This is central to the genocide denial by the Turkish government throughout the 20th and 21st century;
The State might not apologize for fear the apology might be used in the future to ask for reparations or as a legal tool by the victimized; which is also a reason why apologies aren’t more frequent or seem to be handpicked
If a perpetrator doesn’t apologize, when a crime goes unpunished, it continues to be committed. Denial perpetuates genocide. That’s exactly what Perpetrator Turkey is doing. The Armenian and Ethiopian Genocide is a crime against humanity that continues to be committed because it is denied and its perpetrators have gone unpunished.
💭 Germany’s president on Wednesday (Nov.01) apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania as he met descendants of Chief Songea Mbano executed for leading a revolt.
In Songea, southwestern Tanzania, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier vowed to seek answers to questions regarding the German East Africa era. The German East Africa was a colony part of the German possessions. It covered todays’ Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi existed from 1885 until the end of World War I.
“My dear family (of Songea, ed.), I mourn with you for Chief Songea, and for all the others who were executed. I wish to pay my respects to the victims of the German colonial rule. And as German President I would like to ask for forgiveness for what Germans did to your ancestors here,” Steinmeier said.
He added that Mbano was “a brave leader” in the rebellion.
“I beg your forgiveness and I would like to assure you that we Germans will search with you for answers to the open, unanswered, outstanding questions that give you no peace.”
Steinmeier laid a rose at Chief Songea Mbano’s grave and a wreath at a mass grave of 66 other fighters in the Maji Maji uprising, German news agency dpa reported.
Up to 300,000 people are believed to have died during the Maji Maji rebellion between 1905 and 1907.
Skulls brought back to Germany could include that of chief Mbano. Steinmeir has vowed to try to find it, according to remarks released by his office. “Unfortunately, I just can’t promise you that we will be successful,” because identifying human remains is difficult even with scientific expertise, he added.
In 2017, Tanzania’s then-government said it was considering legal action to seek compensation from Germany for the people who allegedly were starved, tortured and killed by German forces.
Germany in 2021 announced an agreement with Namibia, another country where it was once the colonial ruler, to recognize colonial-era massacres of tens of thousands of people there as genocide and provide funding to help the communities affected. But the accord stopped short of formal reparations.
That agreement, which some groups representing the Herero and Nama people aren’t happy with, has yet to be formally signed off on.
The German Empire held numerous colonies from 1884 until the end of World War One. These included territories in modern-day Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Namibia, Cameroon, Togo and Ghana.
💭 Moments before the BRICS plenary session began in Johannesburg; Chinese President Xi Jinping was left feeling awkward and confused. Jinping’s aide was slow in catching up with his boss and when he paced quickly to join Xi, it raised suspicion of the security personnel. The President then looked behind several times to understand what was going on, before moving on to attend the events.
At least 23 African migrants seeking to cross into Spain died in a stampede. The incident happened after thousands of migrants tried to breach Morocco’s border fence with Spanish enclave of Melilla. During this, a violent two-hour skirmish broke out between migrants and border officers.
Citizens of Burkina Faso feel that the authorities have abandoned them to Jihadists.
☪ Muslim Terrorists Invade Town, Block All The Access Roads And Butcher Anyone Who Tries To Escape. They Then Enter Each Home And Execute All of The Men.
There was a massacre in Burkina Faso. Islamic terrorists blocked the roads, butchered those trying to escape, entered homes and executed the men, as we read in Le Monde:
Oussou (the first name has been changed) thanks heaven for still being alive, but searches in vain for the traces of his relatives, who have disappeared since the deadly attack which hit his commune on the night of June 11 to 12. That evening, the town of Seytenga, in northeastern Burkina Faso , was surrounded by dozens of heavily armed men, affiliated, according to several security sources, with the Islamic State organization in the Greater Sahara. (EIGS).
Around “4 or 5 p.m.”, when the first shots rang out, Oussou managed to flee and watched helplessly from afar as the jihadist noose tightened. “They blocked all the exits from the city and killed all those who tried to escape”, says the survivor, now a refugee, like more than 3,100 other people, in the city of Dori, capital of the province. du Séno, 47 kilometers from Seytenga. “Then they opened the doors of the houses one by one and executed all the men they found,” continues the 30-year-old Burkinabé, still in shock after this attack from which he narrowly escaped. It was one of the deadliest assaults sincethe coup by putschist Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on January 24 .
“So far, 50 bodies have been found by the army,” government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said at a press conference held Monday in Ougadougou, the capital, before warning that this assessment was “maybe heavier”. Several security sources, both Burkinabe and international, contacted by Le Monde speak of a “massacre” that resulted in the death of at least 100 people.
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✞✞✞ The Ancient Christian Genocide of Ethiopia✞✞✞
💭 Learn Lessons of Rwandan Genocide and Act Now to Stop Ethiopian War, UN Urged
African groups urge UN to press for humanitarian access and peacekeeping force to be deployed in Tigray amid atrocities.
African civil society groups have accused the United Nations of inaction over atrocities in Ethiopia, warning in a letter that it had not learned the lessons of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and that the “situation risks repeating itself in Ethiopia today”.
Tens of thousands of people are thought to have been killed and millions more displaced since war broke out between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party of the country’s northern region, in November 2020.
All of the parties in the war have been accused of crimes including arbitrary killings, mass rape and torture, while ethnic Tigrayans across the country have been subject to mass arrests amid a spike in hate speech, which has seen the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, refer to the Tigrayan rebels as “weeds” and “cancer”.
In the letter to the UN secretary general, António Guterres, 12 African civil society groups including the Kampala-based Atrocities Watch Africa, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and Nigeria’s Centre for Democracy and Development called on him to “provide leadership in ending the ongoing war in Ethiopia”.
“Twenty-eight years ago, the security council similarly failed to recognise the warning signs of genocide in Rwanda or act to stop it,” the signatories said, adding: “We are concerned that the situation is repeating itself in Ethiopia today. We call on you to learn the lessons from Rwanda and act now.”
In November 2021, the UN security council issued a statement expressing concern over the fighting, but it has yet to take any concrete steps towards resolving the conflict.
Last month, a report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accused forces from the Amhara region of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Tigrayans “with the acquiescence and possible participation of Ethiopian federal forces”.
Dismas Nkunda, head of Atrocities Watch Africa, said: “With reports of ethnic cleansing coming out of western Tigray, there is real reason for concern that some of these crimes reach the level of genocide, and it’s essential that the United Nations grasp the seriousness of the current situation and respond accordingly.”
The UN human rights council has appointed a team to investigate abuses committed during the conflict, although the government has vowed not to cooperate.
Tigray has been largely cut off from the rest of Ethiopia since the fighting began, with transport and communications links cut. About 90% of the region’s 5.75 million population are in need of aid, and the region’s health bureau estimates that at least 1,900 children under the age of five died of starvation in the past year.
In March, the government unilaterally declared a “humanitarian truce” to allow supplies to reach the region, but only a handful of aid trucks have arrived since then.
The letter urges the UN security council to press for “immediate and unimpeded humanitarian access to Tigray ” and “impose an arms embargo on all parties to the conflict”.
The signatories also call for deployment of an international peacekeeping force led by the African Union, which has its headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
“Such action will be vital to assisting the Ethiopian men, women and children who have been suffering both direct hostilities, associated human rights violations and obstructed humanitarian aid,” they said.
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