A court case seeks compensation to rebuild churches and other religious sites ruined in targeted attacks upon Christian communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Alliance Defending Freedom International is supporting the legal case for compensation for damage done in Banyamulenge Christian communities in Uvira, where churches and religious sites were destroyed in attacks this year.
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“The primary attack took place on 18 January 2026, when the DRC military and aligned militia groups recaptured the city of Uvira from M23 rebels who had occupied the city for months,” ADF International reported.
‘Carried out to destroy’
Then came deliberate destruction of five Christian churches and more than 70 homes.
“These attacks were specifically carried out to destroy the central Christian religious pillars of the Banyamulenge in Uvira as a means of erasing their ethno-religious identity,” according to ADF International.
It also undermined their ability to gather for worship, the statement said.
Religious freedom advocates, with the assistance of ADF International, filed a case March 11 in the East African Court of Justice in Nairobi, Kenya, seeking compensation for rebuilding the churches and demanding that authorities in the DRC take necessary action to stop the attacks immediately.
World Watch
DRC is No. 29 on Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List of the 50 places most difficult to be a Christian.
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