Prayer needed for conflict in Burkina Faso

Join us in prayer for Burkina Faso. Siaka Traoré, a leader in the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso and Regional Representative for Mennonite World Conference, is asking for prayers as the country continues to face terrorist attacks. He shares the following:

Siaka Traoré (MWC)

Burkina Faso has gone through a dark period in the second half of August. On August 24, 2024, while the people of the village of Barsalogho, some 150 km from the capital Ouagadougou, were working together, they were attacked by terrorist assailants. Over 100 civilians and soldiers were killed. Around 150 were wounded.

The following day, Sunday, August 25, while the country was mourning its dead, another attack took place in a village called Kounla in the north-west of the country. This massacre took place in a church. After ordering the women and children out of the church, the terrorists executed 26 men. The pastor of this church, who had studied with one of our pastors at the Maranatha Institute in Bobo-Dioulasso, was killed.

These cruel acts have a profoundly traumatic effect on women, children and many others. Let us pray for healing.

– AIMM/MWC