
Militants from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed and murdered six of the Christians in a forest near the town of Nzara in Western Equatoria State near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The seventh was snatched from a church in Ezo.
The LRA, a Ugandan rebel force influenced by Islam and the occult, has been terrorising southern villages for years but stepped up its attacks at the end of last year – training its sights particularly on Christians.'