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Central African Republic: Muslims murder at least 42 Christians in jihad massacre in cathedral

Nov 17, 2018 8:41 am By Robert Spencer

“The death toll could reach as high as 100,” but this attack will get little international attention. The international media is much more concerned with trying to find incidents of “Islamophobia.”

“At least 42 dead in cathedral attack in Central African Republic,” Catholic News Agency, November 16, 2018:

Alindao, Central African Republic, Nov 16, 2018 / 04:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At least 42 people have died in an attack Thursday on the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Alindao, in the Central African Republic, according to local reports.

At least one priest was among those killed in the Nov. 15 attack. Some unofficial estimates have said the death toll could reach as high as 100. Many of the people killed were refugees sheltering at the Church.

The CAR has suffered violence since December 2012, when several bands of mainly Muslim rebel groups formed an alliance, taking the name Seleka, and seized power.

In reaction to the Seleka’s attacks, some Central Africans formed self-defense groups called anti-balaka. Some of these groups, mainly composed of Christians, began attacking Muslims out of revenge, and the conflict took on a sectarian character.

According to reports from Aid to the Church in Need, ex-Seleka forces attacked the cathedral, reportedly in retaliation for a Muslim who was killed the day prior by anti-balaka.

The priest killed in the attack was vicar general of the diocese, Abbe Blaise Mada. Aid to the Church in Need added that some reports have said second priest, Father Celestine Ngoumbango, was also killed, but this has not been confirmed.

Houses in the neighborhood were also looted and burned.

Many Catholic churches in the country provide refuge to Muslims and Christians alike fleeing violence, included churches in the Diocese of Bangassou, some 140 miles to the east of Alindao, where several Catholic institutions have taken in displaced Muslims who face violence at the hand of anti-balaka.

Anti-balaka killed more than 100 Muslims in Bangassou in May 2017 before United Nations peacekeepers intervened, and since then the city’s Petit Seminaire Saint Louis has been home to about 1,600 displaced Muslims. Another 2,000 Muslims have taken refuge at St. Peter Claver Cathedral in Bangassou….

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 8:49 am

    The jihad in Africa continues.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 12:06 pm

      The jihad will move to European cathedrals if Pope Frank has his way and if Roman Catholics don’t stop the madness in their church.

      European cathedrals will all have similar jihad attacks in the near future. Armed members of the congregation should sit near the entrances in all big churches.

      • kay abel says

        Nov 18, 2018 at 10:44 pm

        Not to worry as long as the Pope insists that Islam is a religion of peace and that muslims and christians worship the same god.

  2. Mac-101 says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 9:07 am

    How about a little more and clearer description of the present government. Is the population really 80% Christian ruled by 10% Muslim Thugs? Are these thugs terrorizing the Christian majority population as dictated by Mohammad? When Christians defend themselves the UN sends troops in to suppress the Christians? Just like Serbia.
    .
    I really don’t know. But I expect many countries in Africa are terrorized by a government controlled by a minority or Muslims. This should be studied I depth and a updated fall of Europe calculated due to this phenomenon.

    • Alexios Comnenos says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 11:58 am

      Unfortunately none of this is new today. If you take time to listen to this video of Dr. Warner, you will understand what islam was from its first day and what is today.

      https://youtu.be/INH9tKrhh4w?list=PL6ZloCqMDqLNJkd32Jfsgefqb2ekXkp3D

      We need to pray for these Christians nations who suffer persecution and not to be afraid to speak out.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 5:20 pm

      Mac, that really is the situation in the Central African Republic, which is over 80% Christian.

      Séléka rebels–virtually all Muslims–seized the capital in 2013. There is, however, little government control outside the capital–but there is lots of Jihad there.

      In 2014 Séléka members threw grenades before shooting indiscriminately at the Church of Fatima in the capital Bangui, killing at least 11 people. They also killed refugees and a U.N. peacekeeper the following year.

      But things are chaotic and Séléka are not the only Jihadists there.

      • Mac-101 says

        Nov 17, 2018 at 10:50 pm

        Thank you Gravin. What I was tryin to relay that once the younger male population approaches 20% of the youth of Europe they can easily take over due to their extreme violent ways. In the military, many times sheer violence can overcome numerical odds or superiority if one is afraid to use it.
        .
        Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are prime examples. Germany and Japan are prime example how overwhelmin force used brutally ends warfare quickly. There is no such thing as Hearts and Minds in a war zone!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 5:22 pm

      Also, Mac, Uganda is 84% Christian, but was terrorized by crazed Jihadist in power Idi Amin for many years.

      • Mac-101 says

        Nov 17, 2018 at 10:45 pm

        We had a Uganda minister who ran an orphanage and he had to escape Uganda. THEY put a price on his head and killed his brother because he refused to teach Islam there in his orphanage. He preached in our Church last month and got donations for the orphanage. He has done a lot of building in just 3 years and have saved a lot of children from the street or certain death. He started under a Bush Tree and now got 3 or 4 large buildings. He said it costs something like 3000 dollars to build a good size brick building.
        .
        When I was in Iraq back in 2005 we had Uganda troops provide security around the perimeter of the FOB. They were 50/50 men and women and in excellent shape and extremely friendly but ALL business. It was surprising how good their English was. Almost ALL of them could be understood using simple words. I hope they are safe back home.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    Those vicious and violent jihadists who murdered all those Christians in the country Central African Republic must have , no doubt ,, had schemed and plotted beforehand with thoughtful malice and murderous intentions.

    Therefore this is a very strong reminder of the message from the Bible in Proverbs 15:16. Which is “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord.” {N.K.J.V.]

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    The jihad-minded Muslims who murdered all those Christian does reflect the the instruction found in the Quran in 2:191; which reads “Kill the disbelievers wherever we find them.”

    So much for the bogus claim made by the propagandists for Islam which is that “Islam is a non–violent and peaceful religion.” That claim is totally false as proven by the Quran and the murderous actions of those Muslims who follow the instruction found in that “holy book” of Islam.

  5. Jim says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    I’d like to inform all the stupid people out there …

    How many women children and especially orphans were raped last month in South Africa, just because they were Caucasian Asian or east Indian????

    Several hundred thousand every month for the past several decades never support Africa on anything or any Muslim on anything…

  6. Avenger says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    Are there any examples of Mullahs allowing Christians to seek refuge in their mosques when fellow Muslims are murdering them?
    I wish I could ask the Pope this question.

  7. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    Mr Spencer never cared to report the genocidal killings of muslims by these primitive and dirty mithraist christians in central African Republic where dead bodies were being fried and eatened by mithraist christian canibalists. May be the satan mithraist christians Call holy spirit has decreed that when mithraist christians carry out atrocities no one should dare report It.

    • Angemon says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 4:45 pm

      Pipe down, mohammed worshipper. Also, citation needed. I bet that what you call “genocidal killings of muslims” is nothingbut Christians defending themselves from actual genocidal killers – your coreligionists.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 5:33 pm

      What–you mean like this back in May?

      “Bangui church attack: 15 killed in Central African Republic”

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43964817

      More projection from Ibrahim itace muhammed.

    • Bacherbazistan says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 7:58 pm

      Ibrahim, clearly you haven’t researched Father Zacharia like I asked you to do before. Very disappointed.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Nov 18, 2018 at 3:25 am

        Bacherbaristan, devout mithraist churchmen are not reliable because the satan you call Holy Spirit inspires them to lie.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Nov 18, 2018 at 3:28 am

        Bacherbaristan, mithraist churchmen are not reliable because the satan you call Holy Spirit inspires them to lie

        • Dee says

          Nov 18, 2018 at 5:52 pm

          You are confusing with the quran, which explicitly condones violence.
          Take your lies elsewhere…

  8. somehistory says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 5:06 pm

    And just how do the churches giving msolims protection make certain that those are not the moslims who were engaged in slaughtering Christians?

  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 17, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    Central African Republic: Muslims murder at least 42 Christians in jihad massacre in cathedral
    ………………..

    These poor people! Just horrifying.

    God, I hate Islam.

  10. Kenn says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 5:28 am

    In Octoberr, 2018, Islamic hate groups killed 776 people of color. In September the death count was 771. https://dailykenn.blogspot.com/2018/11/hate-groups-killed-776-people-of-color.html

  11. JOHN says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 10:15 am

    Things are so much better for the Africans since white rule of the continent ended! (Hey, I’m just stating a fact.)

    • Dee says

      Nov 18, 2018 at 5:53 pm

      You are confusing with the quran, which explicitly condones violence.
      Take your lies elsewhere…

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