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Church in Africa

Why are Catholics being killed in Burkina Faso?

Armed men targeted a Catholic church in Burkina Faso Sunday, killing at least 15 people and injuring two others.

Luke Coppen
Feb 26, 2024
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Armed men targeted a Catholic church in Burkina Faso Sunday, killing at least 15 people and injuring two others.

Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Bomborokuy, western Burkina Faso. Fred P. M. van der Kraaij via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The massacre was reported Feb. 25 by the Diocese of Dori, in the northeast of the landlocked African country, where the n…

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