Burkina Faso: six martyred

World Watch Monitor  |  World
Date posted:  1 Jun 2019
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Burkina Faso: six martyred

An outdoor church outside a home in western Burkina Faso | photo: CIF Action via Flickr; CC 2.0

Gunmen who attacked a Protestant church on 28 April asked the pastor and five others to convert to Islam before killing them.

Pastor Pierre Ouédraogo, 80, and other members were chatting in the church yard. Around 1pm a dozen armed men arrived on motorbikes to storm the place.

The assailants asked the Christians to convert to Islam, but the pastor and the others refused. They ordered them to gather under a tree and took their Bibles and mobile phones. Then they called them, one after the other, behind the church building where they shot them dead.

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