
Pope Francis waves to journalists as he stands by Istanbul’s Grand Mufti Rahmi Yaran upon their arrival to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on Saturday.
Pope Francis waves to journalists as he stands by Istanbul’s Grand Mufti Rahmi Yaran upon their arrival to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on Saturday.
Muslim men belonging to a community of cattle merchants pray outside the Kara mosque, in the Ogun State of Nigeria, on October 26, 2012. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
It was not immediately clear why the Islamic Boko Haram would have killed worshipping Muslims, but the group has in the past attacked mosques whose clerics have spoken out against religious extremism. Boko Haram also has attacked Christians outside churches and teachers and schoolchildren, as well as government and military targets.