Christian Headlines | Scott Slayton | June 9, 2020 Gunmen killed 58 people, mostly Christians, in three separate attacks in the West African nation of Burkina Faso late last month. TRT…
ABC Net | May 31, 2020 At least 35 people have reportedly been killed after separate attacks on a cattle market and a humanitarian convoy in Burkina Faso during a…
Aleteir | Maria Lozano | May 9, 2020 For those directly affected by consistent terrorist attacks in northern and eastern Burkina Faso, the coronavirus is “a disaster within a disaster,”…
National Catholic Reporter | Jonathan Luxmoore | April 13, 2020 As the coronavirus threatens new social and economic dislocations across Africa, it will be but one more complication in the…
Gatestone Institute | Raymond Ibrahim | April 12, 2020 On Sunday, February 16, Islamic gunmen raided a church during service and slaughtered 24 worshippers, including their pastor; 18 other congregants were…
The Guardian | Agence France-Presse in Ouagadougou | February 17, 2020 Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an attack on a Protestant church in a village in…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | Jan. 7, 2020 Burkina Faso Christian Church at Tibin village near Ziniaré in the province of Oubritenga, Burkina Faso, on October 9, 2013. |…
FP | Robbie Gramer | December 20, 2020 The Trump administration is preparing to create a new special envoy position and task force to deal with security threats in the…
BBC News | Dec. 1, 2019 At least 14 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in Burkina Faso. The victims were attending a service at…
Gatestone Institute | Raymond Ibrahim | Nov. 10, 2019 Today is one of the International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP). Initiated over 20 years ago by the…
The Wall Street Journal | Jessica Donati and Courtney McBride | Nov. 1, 2019 WASHINGTON—Africa’s Sahel region is emerging as a new frontier in the fight against terrorist groups, according…
Premier | Sept. 18, 2019 According to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), 2,000 villagers from Hitté and Rounga in Burkina Faso's Loroum Province, fled their homes…
Christian Headlines | Aug. 27, 2019 Islamic terrorists are continuing to kill Christians in northeastern Burkina Faso. According to CBN News, Aid to the Church in Need reports in a June…
Gatestone Institute | Raymond Ibrahim | Aug. 25, 2019 Pictured: The small village of Sobane Da, in Mali, where at least 95 Christians were murdered by Fulani gunmen in June.…
Washington Post | Aug. 21, 2019 DAKAR, Senegal — One evening in late June, gunmen stormed a village in northern Burkina Faso and ordered people who had been chatting outside…
Aug. 15, 2019 | Juicy Ecumenism | By Scott Morgan Since January 2019, twenty people have been killed and several churches have been destroyed by Islamist forces operating in the…
They had just gathered to share stories and the happenings of the day—like West African communities often do in the evenings–when strangers entered their village in northern Burkina Faso. Before the…
OPEN DOORS USA | Lindy Lowry | May 14, 2019 Mirroring the April 28 attack in which gunmen executed a pastor and five congregants after a worship service in Burkina…
World Watch Monitor | May 2, 2019 An outdoor church outside a home in western Burkina Faso. It is not connected to the 28 April violence. (Photo: CIF Action via Flickr;…