Posted on 11/08/2022 7:06:44 PM PST by marshmallow
As soon as Sister Marie-Sylvie realised the hospital was under attack, she reportedly called the local parish so that the priests and religious there could flee.
(ZENIT News / Congo, 25.10.2022).- A nun in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been burnt alive after Islamists set fire to the hospital where she worked as a doctor.
Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki and an un-named patient died when the blaze broke out at a hospital in Maboya village, near Butembo city in the east of the country in central Africa.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Ugandan jihadist group Islamic State – Central African Province, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces.
As soon as Sister Marie-Sylvie realised the hospital was under attack, she reportedly called the local parish so that the priests and religious there could flee.
Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, which supports persecuted and other suffering Christians, Father Marcelo Oliveira, head of the Comboni Missionaries in the DR Congo, described the “terror” of the night on Wednesday (19th October).
He said: “The ADF rebels attacked the village, and more precisely the hospital. They looted everything they could find, taking medicines, and at the end they set fire to the building. A nun, who is also a doctor and was on night duty, was burned alive, along with a patient.”
Father Oliveira said that once the hospital was destroyed, “the rebels continued on their way and set fire to another hospital nearby.”
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“The religion of peace” said a previous president (or two).
May she rest in peace.
How long has Africa been the continent of such things?
Zulus, Mau Maus, massacres in Rhodesia and South Africa and Nigeria and the Congo.
Catholicism and other Christian faiths encourage missionaries and evangelism.
I’m sorry but I disagree and always have. Sacrifice of good people doesn’t cause as many people to convert as it cause far more to abandon religions that allow those deaths.
A nun who was a doctor could have helped good people in the United States. Instead, she will help no one as she was cruelly murdered.
No Islam, Know Peace.
Know Islam, No Peace.
"And these are the ones who have conquered by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death." (Revelation 12:11)
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