Including a pastor, ten civilians who were killed in an attack on the village of Vido in North Kivu, a province in northeast DRC, reports AFP. 20 others are missing after the attack. Among those murdered was an Anglican pastor, according to local leader Patrick Musubao.
The attack is suspected to have been perpetrated by the Islamist terrorist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an affiliate of ISIS. ADF has the primary aim of creating an Islamic caliphate in Central Africa. In order to achieve this, they often assault, kidnap and kill Christians.
Christians are the large majority (85-90%) of DRC’s population. Islamic extremism continues to worsen in DRC, it puts the country at number 40 on the 2021 Open Doors World Watch List for Christian persecution. “These predominantly Christian communities are attacked by an Islamic extremist group with a clear Islamic expansionist agenda,” Open Doors spokesperson Illia Djadi stated in reference to ADF.