News Burkina Faso Religion: "We Are Never Heard": Persecution of Christians, May 2019
"The assailants asked the Christians to convert to Islam, but the pastor and the others refused." So "they called them, one after the other, behind the church building where they shot them dead." — World Watch Monitor, Burkina Faso, May 2, 2019. "When
News Burkina Faso Religion: Sowing division, Islamists target Christians in Burkina Faso
(RNS) — A rash of attacks on churches in Burkina Faso is exposing the growing challenge of containing Islamist violence across Africa’s Sahel region. On Sunday (May 12) militants attacked a Roman ...
News Burkina Faso Religion: Gunmen Kill at Least 6 in Church Attack in Burkina Faso
About 55 percent to 60 percent of Burkina Faso’s population is Muslim, roughly 20 percent to 25 percent is Christian, and the rest follow indigenous religions, according to the State Department of the ...
News Burkina Faso Religion: Special Investigation: The Fulani ‘Doomed to a bleak future?’
Old conflicts have flared anew between herders and sedentary farmers in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger ... Yet the conflict goes beyond religion, bringing into focus issues that are crucially ...
News Burkina Faso Religion: Burkina Faso: Communicating for tolerance and peace
Although from different religions and ethnic groups ... Islamic groups have since established themselves in Burkina Faso, a country long considered a pillar of stability in the Sahel region. But in ...
News Burkina Faso Religion: UN Chief Warns of Rise in Religion-Based Violence
He pointed to the attack Saturday on a synagogue in California and on Sunday on a Protestant church in the African nation of Burkina Faso. Last month, 50 Muslim worshipers were killed by a lone gunman ...
