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Congo: “They told him to convert to Islam if he wanted to live. He declined. They slew his neck and left.”

Apr 14, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

The coronavirus pandemic will end. This kind of attack will not.

“Only God Knows: DRC Priest Martyred for Christ,” International Christian Concern, April 9, 2020:

04/09/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Two months ago, an Anglican priest was killed in Eringeti village by members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamic rebel group that targets Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The Rev. Ven. Batsemire Ngulongo Yesse was killed alongside 35 other Christians living in four villages in the West district of Beni. The father of eight was slain when he refused to convert to Islam. International Christian Concern (ICC) met with his family at the border in Bwera district, Uganda.

“We were in our house at the church on January 29, when we heard people walking inside the compound. My husband opened the door and we found that they were a group of men, armed with machetes. They ordered my husband to sit down. We went inside and hid under the bed, but we could hear what they were saying to him. The people introduced themselves as Muslims. They asked the Reverend why he was still pastoring the church and what religion he belonged to. He said we were Anglicans. They told him to convert to Islam if he wanted to live. He declined. Right there, they slew his neck and left. He died on the spot,” said Kapitula Francoise Mbambu, the widow of Rev. Ven. Batsemire Ngulongo Yesse.

His son, Paluku Ngalyananzighu, narrated the horrific incident that took the life of his father….“Now this time, they came at night and knocked at the door. My father opened the door. They asked him why he had defiled their order of leaving Christianity and becoming a Muslim. He replied that he was raised in a Christian family, became a Christian and baptized in an Anglican church and he cannot convert to another religion. The Islamists threatened to kill him. He said that it is only God who knows the time of his death and if it is time for him to die then he is ready to die a Christian. Then they slaughtered him. I was in another house and I heard all that they were doing. When they had killed my father they left.”

The church in Congo has been experiencing continued attacks on Christians for over a decade. Many have been killed and cars and vehicles belonging to believers burnt. In November 2019 the ADF group killed the pastor of a Baptist church in Mayimoya. The Christians there have been living in fear since them. In other instances, the attackers would meet people on the way and separate Christians from Muslims and kill them.

Reverend Wilson Kasereka, the Busongora Archdeacon in the Diocese of North Kivu, who accompanied the family of the slain priest, said, “The war against Christians has been escalating and people are dying daily in the territories of Beni, Mbau, Eringeti, Mayi-moya, Kokola and other towns. We have lost several pastors that have been serving Christians in Congo and we live in fear because we do not know when the ADF will come for us. We have many refugees here at the border of Congo and Uganda because there is some peace. We have many Christians who have taken shelter in our diocese. The Anglican of Congo is not strong enough to support all these Christians. These Christian refugees need a lot of prayers and support.”

The ADF is an Islamic rebel group that originated in Uganda in the 1980s and settled in the Rwenzori Mountains that sit along the border of Uganda and Congo. They have been killing, raping, and kidnapping Christians for more than two decades….

Photo by MONUSCO Photos – https://www.flickr.com/photos/monusco/26665168818/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86966245

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  1. notnolib says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 8:22 am

    This is islam as demanded by its inventor mohammed the pig-faced dog, creator of allah the moon-god.

    Any word on this from the terrorists at the terror group CAIR?

    • Big Poppa says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 11:21 am

      Religious of Satan. He came to steal, kill and destroy. False Prophet.

    • James says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 6:28 pm

      Yes, a religion that can not tolerate the existence of others, a religion that envisions heaven as sexual orgies can not be of divine origin

  2. Jayell says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 8:31 am

    I believe that Jesus told his disciples to shake the dust off their shoes and just walk away from any town that rejected his teaching. Basic decency and respect, whatever the circumstances. This lot just take off peoples’ heads, just like their ‘Prophet’ did, and was proud of it.. ‘The Religion of Love and Peace and Tolerance’?? Really? Don’t make me want to vomit!

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 8:50 am

    An African explained:
    “When you kill you get good sex.”

  4. Jaladhi says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 9:17 am

    Real Islam on display all over the world! The West keeps on ignoring and allowing the cult followers to come to their own detriment.

    • Big Poppa says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 11:24 am

      Sad thing is that the west won’t talk about all the evil being committed by this Satanic.

      • Battle says

        Apr 16, 2020 at 2:54 am

        “And the Jews say ‘Uzair is the son of Allah'”
        …
        “These are the words of their mouths”
        …
        “Fight them to the death”

        Whose translation version please?

        If you can’t provide the translator version then I have no way of knowing the verse is quoted correctly?

        You first.

        “The Jews say ‘Ezra is the son of God'”
        …
        “These are but their baseless utterances”
        …
        “May God destroy them”

        A different translation version.

        You first.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 17, 2020 at 1:45 am

          Battle, translations of the Qur’an differ little from each other. For instance, “Uzair” and “Ezra” are the same figure. And both are false about Judaism, of course.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 9:38 am

    The Koran identifies what Allah hates the most about Christianity, namely, the foundational ‘KERYGMA’ of Christianity: 1) the death 2) resurrection and 3) divinity of Christ. These three are also called the ‘basic gospel’. But Muslims hate the Christian gospel, because Mohammed denied it.

    Muslims are brainwashed through massive repetition and self-hypnosis to see these three essential doctrines of Christianity (the Christian gospel) as extremely offensive, and so they are the Muslim motivations to murder and persecute Christians.

    Muslims feel righteous as they persecute the ‘idolators’ and ‘polytheists’. Both Jews and Christians are classified as ‘polytheists’ by the Koran.

    The following verse is part of the Chapter of the Sword (Chap.9) of the Koran: [9.30] “And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah FIGHT THEM TO THE DEATH; how they are turned away!”

    This delusional verse is not just erroneous, but a DEATH SENTENCE for both Jews and Christians.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 10:38 am

    The Venerable Batsemire Ngulongo Yesse was a senior cleric, just below a bishop in authority. His duties included administrative and theological matters. The Islamist attackers had no idea of his importance or level of his skill and knowledge nor did they care. Nor did they care about making 8 orphans and a widow.

    Islam is indeed a death cult.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 11:50 pm

      Mortimer, thank you for that information about the victim.

  7. Wellington says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 11:53 am

    The world should care about this, deeply, but it will not. A la Orwell, all religions are equal except one religion is more equal than others.

    There is something else going on too and it is this: black Christians in Africa are extra expendable because of their location, their race and their religion.

    Islam is disgusting but so is ignoring Islam’s many provisions (e.g., the phony no compulsion in religion rot) and atrocities. Abetting evil is at least as bad as evil itself, if not worse, because it prolongs evil.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 4:23 pm

      Wellington says,

      “Abetting evil is at least as bad as evil itself, if not worse, because it prolongs evil.”

      Absolutely 100% true.

      In some cases, it’s even worse:

      Abetting evil can actually accelerate the progression of evil…

      • Wellington says

        Apr 14, 2020 at 5:20 pm

        “Abetting evil can actually accelerate the progression of evil…”

        I concur and further all contend, James, that this was a salient point of such disparate characters as Jesus and Ayn Rand.

        But Islam missed this. Big time. No wonder, since Islam is steeped in sundry malevolent notions. A bevy full, including death for apostasy { e.g., Sura 4:89} and the extremely sick sanctioning of rape {e.g., Suras 4, 23, 33, and 70}. And mankind in our age is paying a massive price for the enormous error which is Islam, all the while, for whatever indefensible reasons, pretending it is something good. Which it most clearly is not.

        Still ongoing, this nonsense, and with no clear end in sight. Oh yeah, the absurdity continues.

        I despise Islam. The wonder of it all is that the bulk of mankind doesn’t by now. But then so much of mankind has been ready to embrace all kinds of stupid and wicked ideas, among them being Marxism, Nazism and anarchism. Islam too of course. Ah, what a mixed species we are—a few great, most inexcusably ignorant and lazy, and more than a few simply wicked.

        Sorry, but time for a beer (or maybe three).

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 14, 2020 at 11:50 pm

      +1

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 14, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    Congo: “They told him to convert to Islam if he wanted to live. He declined. They slew his neck and left.”
    ………………

    *Hideous*. This *poor man*.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Jaydam says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 3:41 pm

      +1

  9. Battle says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 3:28 am

    Was supposed to be a new reply.

    Was supposed to be after the verse was quoted not before the verse was quoted.

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