Muslim Terrorists Behead 70 Christians in Church in the Congo The genocidal jihad intensifies. by Mark Tapson
https://www.frontpagemag.com/muslim-terrorists-behead-70-christians-in-church-in-the-congo/
Open Doors International, a worldwide organization which supports Christians who suffer persecution and discrimination for their faith, reports that the bodies of 70 Christians were found in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). They had been beheaded by jihadists in the latest horror of the ongoing Islamic genocide of Christians in that country and elsewhere throughout Africa.
According to local sources, at around 4 a.m. last Thursday (13 February) militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – a group with direct ties to the ISIS (Islamic State) terror group – seized 20 Christian men and women from their homes in Mayba in northeast DRC. Later, the militants surrounded the village and captured 50 more believers. All 70 were held hostage for a short period and then taken to a Protestant church in nearby Kasanga and slaughtered, reportedly with machetes.
You wouldn’t know any of this by checking in with the mainstream media, partly because they don’t care about the massacre of Christians anywhere in the world, partly because they can’t figure out how to blame Israel and the Jews for the beheadings of African Christians, and partly because they’re too busy ginning up outrage over Trump firing IRS employees and dismantling the DEI grift.
But some accounts on social media tried to raise awareness. The X account “Libs of TikTok” tweeted, “Seventy Christians were found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were reportedly hostages of the Islamist group ADF—an ISIS affiliate. Why isn’t the MSM covering this story??”
Pro-life activist Lila Rose posted about the massacre as well: “Horrific. 70 Christians were brutally beheaded by an Islamist group inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo Where’s the media outrage? Pray for persecuted Christians.”
According to the 2025 CIA Factbook, the population of the DRK is 93 percent Christian and only 1.3 percent Muslim. And yet the population of 115 million is terrorized by that tiny percentage of Islamic supremacists. The Counter Terrorism Guide of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence states that ISIS-DRC, or the ADF,
is one of the deadliest militant groups in eastern Congo. The group began as an antigovernment insurgency in Uganda and was publicly recognized by ISIS leaders in Syria as an ISIS branch in 2019. ISIS-DRC follows ISIS’s strict interpretation of Islamic law and aims to extend ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate into central Africa.
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ISIS-DRC has a history of indiscriminate killings, ambushes, and kidnappings against Congolese citizens, regional military forces, and UN personnel in the DRC and Uganda. Its attacks killed approximately 4,000 civilians from 2014 to 2020. In 2021, the branch began using IEDs to conduct attacks in Uganda.
Open Doors reports that ADF militants in the country’s northeast are a significant reason why DRC rose six places to number 35 in the latest World Watch List of countries where Christians face persecution. Last year, 355 were killed there for their faith, compared to 261 the previous year, while an estimated 10,000 were internally displaced – ten times more than in 2023. Houses have been looted and burnt, schools relocated, churches and health facilities shuttered, and some Christian villages abandoned altogether.
“Prior to the outbreak of violence, one church denomination had 25 churches in the Beni area; today, they have eight,” reads a report from Persecution.org. “Another denomination had 54 churches and now have 11. Other denominations report similar patterns.”
Open Doors goes on to note that this last year has seen an escalation in attacks against Christians from the ADF:
Coordinated attacks have killed dozens, displaced thousands and left believers living in fear. Christians in the DRC have faced high levels of violence for several years, but this year the attacks against followers of Jesus have been even more brazen and shocking.
The March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group, reportedly supported by Rwandan government, also targets Christian civilians in the Congo, making the situation even worse for Christians:
Converts from Islam and indigenous religions face pressure from their families to return to their old faiths. Catholic church leaders who speak out for fair elections risk harassment. This mix of militant threats, family pressures and political interference creates a dangerous and fearful environment for Christians in Eastern Congo.
In mid-June of 2024, the ADF claimed responsibility for attacks in the DRC that resulted in the deaths of nearly 150 people since the beginning of the month, including on June 7th when at least 41 were killed, some of whom were found bound and decapitated.
In the first two weeks of August 2023, the ADF claimed 55 deaths, 19 in a single attack. They murdered 72 believers during two weeks in March and 80 more over ten days in April.
“We don’t know what to do or how to pray; we’ve had enough of massacres,” said an elder of the CECA20 church, an evangelical community in Central Africa.
Riadh Jaballah, Voice of the Martyrs Canada’s VP of International Ministry and Operations, told Mission Network News back in 2023 that Islamic doctrine inspired the terrorists’ savagery:
I [recently] discussed [this persecution] with an imam, and he said, “We have steps before we kill Christian.” If [a Christian] repents, changes his faith, and becomes a Muslim, it’s fine. If not, they (Muslims) have all this authority from their god to kill that Christian.
Todd Nettleton of Voice of the Martyrs echoed that: “There is an element to this that is very much Christian persecution and Christians being targeted as they try to create an Islamic caliphate and a place where Sharia law is followed.”
Elites in the media and academia endlessly demonize “Eurocentric” (meaning “white”) nations for their purported “colonialism” and “imperialism,” but you will never hear one word from them about the long, genocidal history of colonialism and imperialism which marks Islamic supremacism from its very origins through the present day.
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