(Stanislas Kambashi. Vatican News). Près de 150 personnes sont mortes depuis début juin, dans l’Est de la RDC, dans des tueries attribuées au groupe armé ADF, affilié à l’organisation Etat islamique. Pour…
Tag: Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC: Bishop calls on authorities to end the torment of the Congolese people
(Sina Hartert. ACN). After new massacres in North-Kivu, Mgr Sikuli Paluku, Bishop of Butembo-Beni, in a message sent to ACN, denounces the atrocities committed by the ADF since the beginning of June…
RDC : 30 ans d’évangélisation dans la guerre
(Rédaction. Zenit). ” Depuis 30 ans, nous sommes dans un cycle de violence et dans un éternel recommencement. On sait quand la guerre commence, mais on ne sait pas quand elle va se…
Congo, rifiutano di convertirsi all’islam: assassinati 14 cristiani
(Avvenire. Giulio Alabanese). Quattordici cristiani, molti dei quali giovanissimi, sono stati uccisi con i panga e a colpi di kalashnikov in una zona della provincia congolese del Nord Kivu non lontano da…
“It is with great shock”: Catholic Bishops in DR Congo on Reports of Pentecost Sunday Coup Attempt
(Jude Atemanke. ACI Africa). Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) are shocked to hear reports of a coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the early hours of…
After meeting president, Congo cardinal plays down church/state crisis
(Crux. Ngala Killian Chimtom). Amid what threatened to become a serious church/state situation in Africa’s largest Catholic country, a cardinal threatened with prosecution for sedition in the Democratic Republic of Congo met…
Tentato golpe in Repubblica Democratica del Congo, 20 persone arrestate: “Ci sono anche cittadini americani e britannici”
(Il Fatto Quotidiano. Giusy Baioni). Un intento de golpe de Estado fue frustrado el domingo en Kinshasa , capital de la República Democrática del Congo : un equipo comando, compuesto según las autoridades por congoleños y ” extranjeros “, entre…
RDC: Felix Tshisekedi et le cardinal Ambongo dissipent «des malentendus»
(Stanislas Kambashi, SJ. Vatican News). Le président congolais Felix Tshisekedi et le cardinal Fridolin Ambongo se sont rencontrés ce jeudi 16 mai. Pour l’archevêque de Kinshasa, «les tumultes» qui ont été soulevés…
Hostile Congo regime may be papal candidate’s ideal campaign manager
(John L. Allen Jr. Crux Now). ROME – In the old days, monarchs and emperors who governed the great Catholic powers of the day claimed what they rather fancifully described as a jus…
Congolese Catholics rally round as Cardinal Ambongo accused of ‘sedition’ in DRC
(Catholic Herald. Ngala Killian Chimtom/Crux). After a prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced an investigation of Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa on charges of sedition, both clergy and laity in…
Repubblica Democratica del Congo, i vescovi denunciano una “catastrofe elettorale”.
(Vatican New. Stanislas Kambashi.) Ad un giorno dall’insediamento del presidente rieletto, Felix Tshisekedi, previsto per sabato 20 gennaio, la Conferenza Episcopale nazionale del Congo (Cenco) ha espresso il suo bilancio del processo…
Why is Cardinal Ambongo facing a legal threat?
(LUKE COPPEN. The Pillar). An official document appeared on social media this past weekend that triggered alarm among Catholics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was a letter dated April 27 and…
After his comments deemed “seditious”: Cardinal Ambongo targeted by a prosecutor’s investigation
(Diginital Congo. Dido Nsapu). The Attorney General at the Court of Cassation has, in a letter, ordered the prosecutor of the Kinshasa-Matete district to initiate legal proceedings against Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop…
ÁFRICA/CONGO RD – Los Wazalendo, ‘los patriotas’ que diezman a la población que dicen defender
(L.M. Agenzia Fides). En la variopinta colección de más de 100 grupos armados que operan en el este de la República Democrática del Congo (incluidos mercenarios de Europa del Este), los Wazalendo…
República Democrática del Congo: «¡Nuestro país no está en venta!»
(Sina Hartert. ACN International). Seis obispos del este de la República Democrática del Congo (RDC) han hecho “balance de la situación sociopastoral” de su país durante una reunión ordinaria que tuvo lugar…