ICC Note: In the fight against Boko Haram, sometimes there’s good news. The Nigeria-based Islamist terror organization has ravaged northeast Nigeria, the Lake Chad region, and northern Cameroon for the past six years, especially targeting Christians for murder, forced conversion, kidnapping, and rape, among other atrocities. Recently, they’ve employed suicide bombers, targeting churches, markets, and even Muslim mosques. As a response, Christians and Muslims have united in northern Cameroon to protect each others’ worship services, Christians guarding mosques during prayer and Muslims defending churches during Sunday services.

1/20/16 YAOUNDE, CAMEROON (VOA) — Cameroon Christians have started guarding mosques during prayer sessions and Muslims are also guarding churches after five attacks on mosques by suspected Boko Haram fighters.

The fifth mosque was attacked by a teenage male suicide bomber near the central African nation’s border with Nigeria on Monday.

Boko Haram is now attacking not only churches, schools and markets, but mosques, making Cameroonians more united to fight what they call a common enemy.

At a recent morning prayer call in the central mosque at Mozogo, located on Cameroon’s border with Nigeria, the faithful assembled while members of the local vigilante committee kept guard to ensure no stranger is given access.

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