DRC: Explosion Kills 17 at Baptism Service 

As a crowd of hundreds gathered for the baptism of 60 new believers outside a Pentecostal church in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Monday this week, a terrorist bomb killed 17 and injured around 60 others. The Islamic extremist attack in North Kivu Province is one of many in recent years due to the more than 120 armed groups in the region. (See Christianity Today and the Global Christian Relief app for the full story.)

Even though the DRC is a mostly Christian nation, it is rated among the 50 most dangerous countries for believers in Christ, mostly due to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Muslim rebel group that ruthlessly attacks Christian homes and churches.

Christians in this area live with the threat of kidnapping, and terrible violence is commonplace. The ADF kidnaps women, rapes them and forces them to marry their soldiers, with Christian women sometimes being kept as a kind of ‘trophy’.

Open Doors

Lord, please have mercy. Bring an end to the horrific violence. Heal the wounded. Comfort those who mourn. Speak tenderly to Your people and let them feel You near. Give them Your supernatural power to forgive those who have done such terrible acts against them and their loved ones. Make Your love and peace so evident in Christians’ lives that persecutors will lay down their weapons and pursue Love instead. Give pastors and church members wisdom and courage as they help others in their congregations deal with trauma. Raise up Christian counselors, doctors, guards and lawyers to help those in need, and give Christians favor with the government and with their neighbors. Bless them abundantly so they can also bless others in need, and set them free, Lord. Protect Christian women especially from abduction and abuse. For those who are trapped, make the way for their escape. Be a Shield around every believer in DRC. Provide for them safe places they can go to be sheltered from evil attacks. Surround them with such a powerful wall of angels that whenever those bent on evil come against them, they will see the angels, fall to their knees in fear of the You, and repent. Give every Muslim extremist such a powerful encounter with Your Son that they turn from violent paths to follow the Living God.

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