At least 43 people, including children, were killed July 27 in a brutal overnight attack on a Catholic church in Komanda in eastern Congo.

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, strongly condemned an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on civilians during the night of 26 to 27 July.

”May the blood of these martyrs become a seed of peace, reconciliation, fraternity, and love for the Congolese people,” the Pope writes in his message following a brutal attack on a Catholic Church in ...

According to a statement from the United Nations mission, the rebels stormed the church using guns and machetes, targeting ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Islamic State-backed rebels killed 38 people on Sunday in an attack on a church in eastern Congo, city officials said. The assault in Komanda, a city in ...

At least 34 people were killed in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to ...

Dozens of Christians were reportedly killed by radical Islamists known as the Allied Democratic Forces in the Democratic ...

The armed group ISIL ( ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that a United Nations mission says killed at ...

Gunshots thundered and attackers burst into the church hall, picked out victims, tied them up and shot them dead, survivors ...

Multiple churchgoers have been killed in an attack by an Islamic State affiliate in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, police say.

USCIRF Chair Vick Hartzler called the attack "particularly disturbing as it targeted a place of worship during an evening service." ...

The incident comes after ADF attacks earlier in the month killed 82 civilians in Ituri and North Kivu provinces, which MONUSCO condemned on 23 July. The group has committed grave human rights ...