Mar 3, 2021 catholic news service
A woman mourns on one of the two caskets containing the bodies of Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio and his bodyguard, Vittorio Iacovacci, at Rome's Ciampino airport Feb. 23, 2021. The two men were killed in a Feb. 22 attack on a United Nations convoy in eastern Congo. (Credit: CNS photo/Ministero della Esteri, handout via Reuters.)
As they mourned the killing of the Italian ambassador to their country, Congo's Catholic bishops said the nation's deaths, massacres, kidnappings and displacement underlined the toxic state of security, especially in the mineral-rich eastern regions.
NAIROBI, Kenya — As they mourned the killing of the Italian ambassador to their country, Congo’s Catholic bishops said the nation’s deaths, massacres, kidnappings and displacement underlined the toxic state of security, especially in the mineral-rich eastern regions.