On Tuesday (March 6), police detained six pastors, accusing them of conspiring to rally other clergy in defiance of the government’s shutdown orders.

The insurgent group kidnapped 110 schoolgirls last month.

"It is you rich people who have finished the water, and now you want us to share the consequences."

Congo's bishops said a young Catholic was killed at point-blank range and another was shot dead while trying to return home from anti-government protests.

While reiterating that the killings must stop, the bishops warned that the leaders did not know how to make peace, were confused, traumatized and feared peace.

On April 14, 2014, 276 girls were abducted from a boarding school in Nigeria by Boko Haram militants.