Islamic Extremists Who Were Dressed As Soldiers Separated Christians From A Crowd And Cut Their Throats.

Bishop: Christians Were Crowded, but Islamic Extremists Disguised As Military Separated Them and Slit Their Throats.

A Catholic bishop said that in the Nampula region of Mozambique, a large group of people believed to be Islamic extremists dressed in military gear got together. They then separated the Christians from the rest of the group, tied them up, and cut their throats.

This week, Nacala Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula informed the Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need about the murders that took place last month, as reported to him by one of the Christian survivors who was able to leave.

The survivor revealed to the bishop that the terrorists had on military uniforms, had gathered crowds of people, and claimed to be there to help them.

“When everyone had arrived, they began to inquire as to who was Christian and who was Muslim. The bishop said that they started tying the hands of those people who called themselves Christians behind their backs and cutting them in the throat.

The deaths, according to the bishop, happened on the night of September 6 and the next day, and “11 people in all were slaughtered, leaving a path of ruin and a great deal of dread.”

Sister Maria de Coppi, an 83-year-old Italian nun, was slain in Chipene City on September 6 when armed men raided a Catholic mission site and set structures, including the church and hospital, on fire, according to sources.

According to previous reports from Aid to the Church in Need, the five-hour assault saw the militants loot and set ablaze the mission church, school, health center, homes, library, and vehicles of the Diocese of Nacala.

““She was the picture of a mother, genuinely assisting everyone with basic kindness and humility,” Aréjula said of the nun.

“Sister Maria de Coppi was a nurse who helped undernourished kids in a little chamber with milk and grain, and they also demolished that room.”

Sources say that the terrorists were likely trying to get away from security agents from Mozambique, Rwanda, and the Southern African Development Community.

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According to the BBC, at least 24 nations have deployed troops to Mozambique to aid in the war against militants. Mozambique’s army has been charged with corruption and having 7,000 “ghost soldiers.”

According to the UN, Islamic State-affiliated terrorists in northern Mozambique, a nation with a majority of Christians, have forced more than 3.7 million people to flee their homes.

Islamic radicals have been taking advantage of the instability in Cabo Delgado, a coastal region, after a civil conflict broke out there in 2017. Gas, rubies, graphite, gold, and other natural resources are abundant in the region. At the time, protesters marched against what they said to be earnings flowing to an elite inside the Frelimo Party, with little employment for locals.

As previously reported by the U.S.-based persecution monitoring group International Christian Concern, “jihadist rebels started in the Cabo-Delgado province in 2017, winning over some residents owing to the fact that they returned resources to communities from the government and murdered no one.” But this didn’t last long because IS started killing Christians by setting them on fire and killing them that way.

At least 300 Christians have been murdered for their beliefs in the mostly Muslim province of Cabo Delgado. Additionally, there have been more than 100 assaults on churches nearby.

ISIS-Mozambique, also known as Ansar al-Sunna and locally as al-Shabaab, was designated as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” by the United States in March 2021. According to reports, the gang joined forces with the Islamic State in April 2018, and since then, it has slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands, of people.

Over 50 people, including women and children, were decapitated and other people were kidnapped by terrorists with ties to the Islamic State in November 2020 during weekend attacks in the Cabo Delgado province’s Miudumbe and Macomia districts.

Human Rights Watch discovered in December that terrorists had held more than 600 women and girls as slaves, many of whom had been mistreated and sold for as little as $600 as sex slaves.