By RFIPalled on 14-05-2019Modified 14-05-2019 at 16:21
According to the president of the Burkina Faso-Niger Episcopal Conference, four Catholics died on Monday in the north during a religious procession. Deaths added to the victims of the attack on the church of Dablo who were buried Sunday.
Monseigneur Paul Ouedraogo, president of the Bishops' Conference Burkina Faso-Niger, spoke of this new attack at a meeting of West African bishops in Ouagadougou. This meeting was planned for a long time, but now it is held in a very particular context.
The shadow of the various terrorist attacks against the church and against Burkina Faso hovered over the opening ceremony of this third plenary assembly of West African bishops. The president of the Episcopal Conference of Niger denounced these attacks in speeches. He asked for a minute of silence in memory of the victims. Attacks that he said targeted the Church and its symbols.
Then the president of Faso, Marc Christian Kaboré, meanwhile, asked the bishops of Africa to contribute to the maintenance of social cohesion, because he said " what threatens Burkina Faso, it is an interfaith and inter-community conflict and that is the goal of the terrorists, a goal they will not reach if everyone stays united and united. "
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