Tag Archives: Country: Ivory Coast

WorldNetDaily: Violence against Christians in Muslim regions of Africa is on the rise, and advocates for religious freedom are expressing concern over the deaths of 17, including the family of a Nigerian pastor, as well as the deaths of a dozen Christians in Egypt.

Herald Scotland: Events at the Italian Salesian Roman Catholic mission in Duekoue increasingly echo a notorious church massacre during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Early reports suggested that more than 800 people, largely from the Gbagbo-supporting Gueré tribe, were killed in a single day at the sprawling Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, 300 miles west of Abidjan towards the Liberian border. The attackers seem to have been largely soldiers descended from Burkina Faso immigrant Muslim families loyal to Ouattara.

Associated Press: “The United Nations warned Thursday that violence is spreading across Ivory Coast, citing nearly two dozen rapes in the country’s west and one case where a political opponent was sexually tortured.”

OneNewsNow: “A Pentagon advisor says the apparent victory of a Muslim candidate in the Ivory Coast’s disputed presidential election is the latest example of how Islam is steadily moving its influence southward into sub-Saharan Africa.”

WorldNetDaily: “The Ivory Coast is on the verge of civil war over an attempt by a Muslim to unseat a Christian president who was ruled the election winner by a constitutional council after it determined there was vote-rigging in the Muslim-dominated regions of the African nation, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.”

Salt Lake Tribune: “Due to escalating unrest and political instability in the wake of the Ivory Coast’s contested presidential election, the LDS Church is pulling its non-African missionaries out of the small West African nation and relocating them in Benin and Togo, which are all part of the same LDS mission.”