{"id":34586,"date":"2019-11-19T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=34586"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:52:27","slug":"burkina-faso-pope-francis-urges-dialogue-in-face-of-ongoing-jihadist-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/11\/19\/burkina-faso-pope-francis-urges-dialogue-in-face-of-ongoing-jihadist-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"BURKINA FASO: POPE FRANCIS URGES DIALOGUE IN FACE OF ONGOING JIHADIST VIOLENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pope Francis urged interreligious dialogue in Burkina Faso as ongoing violence by jihadist groups has killed more than 750 people in the West African country this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI address a special thought to dear Burkina Faso, who for some time has been tried by recurrent violence,\u201d Pope Francis said in St. Peter\u2019s Square recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 38 people died and 60 were injured in an attack on Canadian mining company convoy, Semafo, Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI entrust to the Lord all the victims, the wounded, the numerous displaced persons and those who suffer from these tragedies. I appeal for the protection of the most vulnerable,\u201d the pope said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Violence involving jihadist groups \u2014 some affiliated with al Qaeda or the Islamic State \u2014 has killed at least 755 people in Burkina Faso between January and October 2019, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attacks on Burkina Faso\u2019s gold mines have provided the armed groups with new sources of funding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the most recent attack, Pope Francis appealed to civil and religious authorities \u201cto multiply their efforts, in the spirit of the Abu Dhabi Document on Human Brotherhood, to promote interreligious dialogue and harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May 2019, ten Catholics were murdered by gunmen in one week. During Mass, attackers shot and killed five men, including the priest, and then burned down the Catholic church in Dablo. The following day, gunmen killed four more Catholics during a religious procession and then burned the Marian statue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the wave of violence against Catholics this year, Bishop Laurent Birfuor\u00e9 Dabir\u00e9 of Dori, Burkina Faso told Aid to the Church in Need of an attack that occurred on July 27, 2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen the people of the village of Bani had gathered together to speak among themselves, the Islamists arrived and forced everybody to lie face down on the ground,\u201d he said. \u201cThen they searched them. Four people were wearing crucifixes. So they killed them because they were Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bishop said this was the fifth attack against Christians in Burkina Faso in 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToday their main target appears to be the Christians and I believe they are trying to trigger an inter-religious conflict,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the Christian presence in this area and quite possibly in the future from the entire country,\u201d Bishop Dabire said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis urged interreligious dialogue in Burkina Faso as ongoing violence by jihadist groups has killed more than 750 people in the West African country this year. \u201cI address a special thought to dear Burkina Faso, who for some time has been tried by recurrent violence,\u201d Pope Francis said in St. Peter\u2019s Square recently. 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