At least 1,000 Christians were slaughtered this week at the Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, Ivory Coast by Muslim troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara. Catholic priests are also being targeted.
IVORY COAST - The Vatican’s representative to the Ivory Coast has said Catholic priests have been targeted by armed groups during the current conflict, but added that he still hopes “full-scale civil war” can be avoided in the West African country. In Rome, officials of Caritas Internationalis, the church’s charitable aid agency, said one of the priests kidnapped was Father Richard Kissi, diocesan director of Caritas in Abidjan, who was kidnapped March 29 by an armed groups. Full Story>>
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