http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:01:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24209/lord%e2%80%99s-resistance-army-killed-321-people-in-democratic-republic-of-congo http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24209/lord%e2%80%99s-resistance-army-killed-321-people-in-democratic-republic-of-congo#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:15:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24209 At least 321 people were killed and hundreds were abducted in one of the worst massacres by Africa’s most feared rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December.

The attack — which was unreported until now — confirms that the LRA has restarted terrorising the region despite losing its bases in Sudan a few years ago, when Khartoum, its main backer, signed a peace deal with south Sudanese rebels.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24209/lord%e2%80%99s-resistance-army-killed-321-people-in-democratic-republic-of-congo/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23102/lords-resistance-army-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23102/lords-resistance-army-4#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:07:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23102 The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

"They were cut with pangas (machetes) and hit with clubs but some luckily managed to escape. Our forces came to know about the killings while pursuing the LRA yesterday and the pursuit is on for the killers."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23102/lords-resistance-army-4/feed 0