Islamic State-affiliated terrorists kill 11 Christians in northern Mozambique

Originally published in Worthy News

Terrorists affiliated with Islamic State murdered 11 Christians in an attack on Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique last week, Aid the Church in Need (ACN) reports.

The killings come amid relentless violence in Cabo Delgado and the neighbouring province of Niassa, which has led to the deaths of around 5 000 people and the internal displacement of some 1 million others.

Last week’s massacre occurred on Friday, September 15, in the village of Naquitengue, near Mocimboa da Praia, in the province of Cabo Delgado, ACN said. According to information provided to ACN by Friar Boaventura, a missionary of the Poor of Jesus Christ brothers in the region, the armed terrorists arrived in Naquitengue in the early afternoon and proceeded to separate Christians from Muslims.

Then, Boaventura recounted: “They opened fire on the Christians, riddling them with bullets.” Boaventura added that the attack was not the first of its kind: “Unfortunately, when these things happen, the population gets very scared,” he said.

In a separate statement, Sister Aparecida Ramos Queiroz, who works for the Diocese of Pemba, said: “Only prayer can sustain us, because this conflict seems to have no end in sight.”

According to the September Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin many people were seriously injured in the village terror attack in which 11 people were killed. Homes were also burned and property was destroyed.

The attack comes as displaced residents were starting to return to their homes, and a month after Mozambique forces reportedly killed Bonomade Machude Omar, the leader of the Islamic State group in Mozambique. Having ambushed a detachment of soldiers, Omar and his fellow jihadists were killed in the subsequent firefight. 

The bulletin calls for prayer for Mozambique (estimated to be 62% Christian) and for the imperilled Church in jihad-wracked Cabo Delgado.

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