On February 25, as Catholics celebrated Mass and Muslims gathered for morning prayers in Burkina Faso, terrorists launched two attacks against a Catholic Church and a Mosque in the West African nation.

In Essakane village, located in the northeast Oudalan province, at least 15 members of the Diocese of Dori’s Catholic community were massacred. In the rural eastern town of Natiaboani, dozens of Muslims were brutally shot and killed.

Though at the time of this writing, no group has claimed responsibility for these virulent attacks, Vatican News reported that the killings “are the latest in a long string of atrocities committed by Islamist terrorist groups linked to the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the vast Sahel region which also includes Mali and Niger, where terrorism has increased by over 2,000 percent in the last 16 years causing the displacement of millions of people.”

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