Kaya, 30 August, 2024 / 9:44 pm (ACI Africa).
The Pontifical charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, has condemned a recent terrorist attack on a Church in Burkina Faso that claimed the lives of 26 people, many of them Christians.
In a report shared with ACI Africa on Friday, August 30, the Catholic charity foundation provides details about the August 25 attack on the village of Sanaba in Burkina Faso’s Catholic Diocese of Nouna.
“A large group of insurgents surrounded the community, forcibly gathered the population, and targeted men over the age of 12 who were identified as Christians, followers of traditional religions, or opponents of Jihadist ideology. The attackers led these men to a nearby Protestant church, where they were brutally killed,” local sources told ACN.
The same sources spoke of attacks on three parishes near the border with Mali, also in Nouna Diocese, over the past few days.
“As a result, around 5,000 women and children have sought refuge in the city of Nouna. There is not a single man among them. The whereabouts of the male population is still uncertain; we don’t know if they escaped, if they are hiding, or if they were murdered,” says the source.
