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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.
DRC Security: Government urged to keep its promises.
Bishops in the DRC have urged the government of Félix Tshisekedi to keep its promises made to the people of the eastern province about improving security.
Paul Samasumo – Vatican City.
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Catholic Bishops say a joint mission to the eastern province that they undertook, together with representatives of the Regional Bishops’ Conferences, learnt with sadness of the DRC government’s many broken promises to the people. The promises had to do with improving security in the area. Members of the Standing Committee of the
Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Congo (CENCO) asserted at the end of their meeting recently. The Bishops also announced that they intend to start an advocacy campaign on behalf of the people in the eastern province.
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GOMA, JANUARY 29, 2021 (CISA)-A joint mission by the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), has revealed that people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are living in great suffering.
“What happens is great misery, it’s always war! The great misery of the population, who feels like they are abandoned. And then a lot of suffering is what we encountered,” Archbishop Marcel Madila Basanguka, Archbishop of Kananga said following the 12-day comfort mission to cities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The delegation from ACEA and CENCO visited the cities of Butembo, Beni (North Kivu), Bunia, Ituri before return to North Kivu, Goma city. The mission began on January 14 to January 26.