5,000 Catholics killed in a single Nigerian diocese [CC]

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More than 5,000 Catholics have been killed by Boko Haram terrorists in a single Nigerian diocese, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reports.In the Maiduguri diocese, in northeastern …

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This is so terrible. 7, 000 widows and 10, 000 orphaned children!!!
This diocese needs our prayers.
 
Mercenaries have worked in African wars before, namely ones coming from South Africa, this article says once again, this is happening and that they have Boko Haram on the run:

wnd.com/2015/05/white-mercenaries-have-boko-haram-on-run/
They’re Nigeria’s unlikely saviors – most being white, in their 50s and 60s and combat veterans of the former South African apartheid regime.
But, tainted resumes notwithstanding, they’ve been getting the job done in northern Nigeria, hitting the Islamist terror group Boko Haram hard enough to send the jihadists into retreat, liberating dozens of villages and freeing hundreds of women and girls held as slaves and “bush wives” during a six-year-long reign of terror, reported the London Telegraph.
Boko Haram recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In recent years, Boko Haram has slaughtered entire villages, burned countless churches and targeted Christians and moderate Muslims for death. It received global attention last year for abducting nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls.
The squad of mostly-white bush-warfare experts is employed by Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection, a private army run by Colonel Eeben Barlow, a former commander in the South African Defense Force, where he defended the regime against insurrection and fought border wars 30 years ago in neighboring Angola and Namibia.
Read more at wnd.com/2015/05/white-mercenaries-have-boko-haram-on-run/#VgqM7KrhzM7SjaIR.99
 
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