On May 10, the Evangelical Alliance of the Central African Republic sent rebel leader turned self-proclaimed President Michel Djotodia the following grievances, among others:
“Since the commencement of hostilities … we have recorded appalling accounts of actions against Christian communities and individual property. Without even giving an exhaustive list …”
In Ndélé
The Christian Cultural Centre run by a pastor was ransacked.
More than 120 iron sheets were taken from two pastors’ roofs.
Two Christians were set free only after 195,000 Franc ransoms.
In Mbrés
4Four large villages were burned, and the pastors and their congregations are now hiding out in the bush, a prey to illnesses and other problems.
In Bantaganfo
The orphanage was looted, the children menaced and left traumatized.
In Bossangoa
A pastor died when his house was deliberately set on fire, and another was killed out in his field by Seleka troops.
In Alindao
The pastor’s home was ransacked.
The Collège de Théologie Biblique d’Alindao (CTBA) on the Alindao mission station was looted and destroyed.
Three mission vehicles, pastors’ motorbikes and generators were taken.
In Mobaye
A pastor was beaten.
In Nola
A pastor had a visit at 10 p.m. and was told he would be killed if he did not give them money.
Another pastor received two text messages with death threats.
In Yaloké
A pastor saw his son killed before his eyes in cold blood; he himself was beaten and humiliated.
On the road to Boali
At a meeting of Baptist churches, Seleka fighters took all the offering money.
In Bangui
A church was shelled during a worship service, leaving a number of people including children killed or seriously injured.
A pastor was shot dead by the Seleka in front of the church despite the Bible he carried to show he was a servant of God.
A pastor had to watch Seleka fighters carry off 10 motorbikes, five vehicles, five computers, four printers, one multifunction photocopier, 56 GPS, seven cameras and one laminator.
The house of a pastor was visited more than four times by the Seleka, and two vehicles and a motorbike were taken. 4The leader of a Christian organization saw his vehicle taken, while a pastor who had just lost his father was beaten, threatened with death and robbed of the money he had in his pocket to pay for his father’s funeral.
Another pastor’s 4×4 vehicle was taken as he was coming back from an evangelistic mission.
The house of a pastor was occupied for days by Seleka troops.
One pastor saw his two vehicles taken away, while another only narrowly escaped an attacker.
A pastor saw his two vehicles taken by the Seleka.
A pastor was threatened with death and robbed of 120,000 Francs.
A pastor was forced to leave his house after it was looted and his life threatened.
While a pastor was in church, Seleka fighters began ransacking his house; fortunately French and Central African Multinational troops arrived in time to stop them carrying off their plunder.
One Sunday before the church service, a pastor was visited by Seleka fighters who demanded that he leave the area for a mosque to be built in the place of his church.
The leader of a church denomination has left the country after being threatened.
In Bobélé
A pastor narrowly escaped with his life while boxes of toys and Christmas presents for Pygmy children were taken, along with two vehicles.
(MS)
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