This brings to 19 the number of Christians gunned down in this religiously diverse country this past month.

Two people were wounded along with the four killed while celebrating mass yesterday.

As with the previous attacks, no-one has claimed responsibility .

Authorities suspect Mali-based Islamist militants moving across the border to attack churches in this country where 60% of the 20-million population are Muslims.

Catholic Bishop Justin Kientega says Christians reject the growing spiral of violence in Burkina Faso.

Four Catholics were killed in church the previous Sunday.

A priest and five parishioners were killed earlier in May. 

Last month six Protestants were killed during a religious service.

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Lights on Paris’s iconic Eiffel tower were dimmed last night as a tribute to the 12 people who died in the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

President Barak Obama visited the French embassy in Washington yesterday to sign the condolences book for the victims of the terror attack on Charlie Hebo.

At the Grand Mosque leaders from the Islamic faith were joined by Jewish, Buddist, Protestant and Catholic counterparts denouncing the extremism that led French- born Muslim brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi to mount their attack on the publication that has regularly offended all of the above religions.

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