{"id":5249,"date":"2025-08-14T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/more-than-40-christians-killed-during-prayer-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:07:06","slug":"more-than-40-christians-killed-during-prayer-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/more-than-40-christians-killed-during-prayer-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 40 Christians Killed During Prayer Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants with the radical Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked a group of Christians in far northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday, July 27, killing more than 40 people. The attack occurred in the middle of the night while a group was gathered for an all-night prayer meeting. One week earlier, militants attacked another church in the area, killing three people. &ldquo;The two attacks directly targeting [these] churches raise serious questions about the safety of Christians in Ituri province and eastern DRC in general,&rdquo; said a front-line worker. &ldquo;The situation is worrying for Christians living in the area.&rdquo; He asked for prayer that God will comfort the grieving and give Christians freedom from fear as the ADF has been working for years to establish an Islamic caliphate in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/drc\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Congo, Democratic Republic of the and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2864\/christians-in-eastern-drc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post a prayer for Christians in eastern DRC on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants with the radical Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked a group of Christians in far northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday, July 27, killing more than 40 people. 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One week earlier, militants attacked another church in the area, killing three people. &#8220;The two attacks directly targeting [these] churches raise serious questions about the safety of Christians in Ituri province and eastern DRC in general,&#8221; said a front-line worker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More Than 40 Christians Killed During Prayer Meeting - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/more-than-40-christians-killed-during-prayer-meeting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Than 40 Christians Killed During Prayer Meeting - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Militants with the radical Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked a group of Christians in far northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday, July 27, killing more than 40 people. 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