More than 30 Christian worshippers were killed during a prayer vigil in a church in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Islamic State-backed rebels have killed nearly 40 people during an attack on a church in eastern Congo. The rebels with the Allied Democratic Force killed 38 worshippers at the church

Dozens of Christians were reportedly killed by radical Islamists known as the Allied Democratic Forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday, with most of them being slaughtered during a Roman Catholic church vigil.