Posted on 04/04/2011 7:53:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
Please pray for these victims. It’s an underreported story that took place over the weekend. This from Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:
At least 1,000 Christians were slaughtered this week in at the Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekou, Ivory Coast by Muslim troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara. The state-run media has been slow to report the facts.
The conflict in Ivory Coast began in 2002. The country is divided between the Muslim north and Christian south. This is a conflict that has been brewing for years.
Troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the Muslim opposition leader, moved south this past week. They slaughtered 1,000 civilians in Duekoue last week. The victims were mostly men who were shot as they fled the city.
And many tens of thousands of Catholics are in desperate need:
International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy told a news briefing in Geneva that “some 20,000 Ivorians and West Africans migrants (in Duekoue) had found refuge in an overcrowded Catholic mission with little or no access to shelter, food, water and health facilities.”
The UN report of more civilians killed adds to a tally of 462 confirmed deaths since the crisis begin.
The world body is also investigating allegations that 200 African nationals were killed near Guiglo, southwest of Duekoue. (National Post)
More from the UK Telegraph here.
I am unfamiliar with how we might lend aid to this region of the world, though Caritas International (which has condemned the massacre) may be a good place to start looking.
Thanks marshmallow.
That is sad, the Christians shouldn’t be expected to turn the other cheek on this one.
Light a koran in honor of each Christian martyred by a muslim.
At one point in the Gospel, Jesus tells His Heavenly Father that He had not lost any of those entrusted to him.
Christians must set examples. Allowing defenseless people to be massacred is not a good example...
There are many instances of massacre of Christians in the former Soviet Union under Stalin, and others.
Why no effort to stop the slaughter like I. Lybia?
I’ve had my fill of Moslems and the cult called Islam.
The same reason hate crime speech “laws” will only be used to persecute Jews and Christians instead of stopping real hate groups like La Raza and the New Black Panthers.
Somewhere a candle maker is lost in thought ...
Obama’s Muslim man in the Ivory Coast is doing all of the killing! Obama is a disgrace. He loves Muslim terrorists!
It’s better to light a Koran than to curse the darkness.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
It is long past the time for the Pope to come out on these atrocities. The Christians need an army to protect then against these muslim monsters.
Don’t worry, Obama, Congress, the Senate, State Department, our military, we are all over it!
Don’t worry, Obama, Congress, the Senate, State Department, our military, we are all over it!
We don’t want to do anything for the same reason we did nothing in WWII when it was obvious Hitler’s lust for war would not be sated. Islam has the same demon, if you will: it will keep pushing and pushing until we are forced to push back, but at the cost of so, so many innocent deaths until we finally have the steel to do what is right and not what is expedient.
May the Lord comfort those who grieve and may He welcome those who died into His eternal peace.
May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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