“We still need your prayers”: Anglicans appeal for prayer after DRC killings

Posted on July 31, 2025 
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“ ‘Please brothers and sisters, we still need your prayers.’ Clergy from the Anglican Church in DRC have appealed for prayers for peace following attacks that killed more than 40 people in a Catholic church in the eastern Congolese town of Komanda on Sunday 27 July.

A United Nations report on 28 July stated that elements of the ADF, an Islamic State-affiliated insurgent group that originated in neighbouring Uganda, carried out the attack in Komanda town, Irumu territory, Ituriprovince.The militants wielding guns and machetes struck around 1 a.m. while Catholic Christians were attending the prayer vigil.

At least 40 civilians were killed, including children. …”

– Report from The Anglican Communion News Service.