Massive Killings of Christians in Africa 'Dreadful' - Russian Patriarch

Source: Sputnik

Mosocw, August 29, 2016

    

The situation with mass murder of Christians in Africa is "dreadful," Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill said on Monday.

We are particularly concerned about Christians who are killed by radical Islamists….The Russian Orthodox Church is doing its utmost to raise this issue so that the public community could be aware of it….We raise it on the international level, I had a chance to discuss it with Pope Francis…..[all international institutes] should make efforts to prevent the dreadful crime of our time — mass killings of Christians," he said during a meeting with the Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

Russia's Orthodox patriarch added that a number of African countries, including the DR Congo, are directly facing radical religious ideas, which are accompanied by terrorism. He stressed that the events in Nigeria and Central African Republic linked with the mass murder of Christians are particularly "terrible."

Africa has been hit by radicals-insurgency, notably in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, with the Boko-Haram group, which pledged allegiance to the Daesh jihadist group, outlawed in Russia and many other states, operating in these countries for years.

Edited by OrthoChristian.com

Sputnik

8/30/2016

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