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A satellite image shows a newly built trench near Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, where hundreds of people were killed by suspected jihadists Aug. 24, 2024. In an early October massacre in northeastern Burkina Faso, at least 150 people, including many Christians, were killed in the town of Manni in what turned out to be a brutal terrorist rampage. (OSV News photo/Planet Labs Inc. via Reuters)

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'Terrorists burned everything, but not our faith,' say Burkina Faso Christians after massacre

OSV News|Oct 21, 2024|4 Min Read

Residents gather June 7, 2021, at the site of an attack in the village of Solhan, Burkina Faso. Bishop Laurent Dabire of Dori condemned the June 5 attack by Islamists that left at least 160 people dead and urged residents to "keep faith and stay united." (CNS photo/Burkina Faso Prime Minister's Press Service handout via Reuters)

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Burkina Faso diocese holds day of prayer after nearly 200 people killed in Jihadist attack

Ngala Killian Chimtom|Aug 29, 2024|4 Min Read

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At least 15 Catholics dead in attack during Mass in Burkina Faso

OSV News|Feb 26, 2024|3 Min Read

Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, a U.S. member of the Marianites of the Holy Cross, is pictured in a 2007 photo. Sister Tennyson, a native of New Orleans, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5, 2022, after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound in Yago, Burkina Faso. (CNS photo/Christine Bordelon, Clarion Herald)

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Sister Suellen freed after five months of captivity in Burkina Faso

Peter Finney Jr.|Aug 31, 2022|4 Min Read

Three Marianite Sisters: Suellen Tennyson, Pascaline Tougma and Pauline Dourin, are pictured in an undated photo near the clinic where they serve in Yago, Burkina Faso. Sister Tennyson, 83, an American, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5 after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound. (CNS photo/courtesy Marianites of the Holy Cross)

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U.S. nun, 83, kidnapped in Burkina Faso

Peter Finney Jr.|Apr 6, 2022|4 Min Read

Fr. Rodrigue Sanon. (Courtesy photo via CNA)

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Missing priest in Burkina Faso found dead

Catholic News Agency|Jan 21, 2021|2 Min Read

A woman feeds her child at a granite quarry in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in early June, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Anne Mimault, Reuters)

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Caritas worker warns of disaster in Burkina Faso

Jonathan Luxmoore|Jul 8, 2020|3 Min Read

Relatives of victims of an attack wait outside a morgue in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Nov. 8, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes in Burkina Faso as Christian communities are targeted in a spiral of Islamist killings. (CNS photo/Anne Mimault, Reuters)

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Hundreds of thousands forced to flee as attacks continue in Burkina Faso

Jonathan Luxmoore|Mar 2, 2020|4 Min Read

(Shutterstock via CNA)

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Burkina Faso bishop: As violence continues, 'nobody is listening'

Catholic News Agency|Dec 5, 2019|2 Min Read

A displaced woman in Dablo, Burkina Faso, looks on while she waits for help March 1, 2019. (CNS photo/Luc Gnago, Reuters)

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Pope appeals for dialogue, protecting the vulnerable in Burkina Faso

Carol Glatz|Nov 13, 2019|2 Min Read

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