The State Department's 2023 report on Burkina Faso documents militant Islamist groups killing imams, clergy and worshippers while attacking and destroying mosques, churches and traditional places of worship as they besieged dozens of towns and took control of more than half the country's territory, and records that hundreds of churches closed under this pressure, three of the six parishes in the Catholic Diocese of Dori among them, with 31 Christians killed for their faith between October 2022 and September 2023.
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Citation
AuthorUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
PublisherUS Department of State
URLhttps://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/burkina-faso/
Source TypeGovernment report
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The United States' own State Department annual country report on religious freedom, the strongest available form for a fact about extremist violence forcing the closure of places of worship, hence the top tier. Connections
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This source names Burkina Faso directly: "The State Department's 2023 report on Burkina Faso documents militant Islamist groups killing imams, clergy and worshippers while attacking and destroying mosques, churches and traditional places of..."
Source US Department of State, 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom: Burkina FasoUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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