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People displaced by the ongoing fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels gather in a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bishops call on warring parties to respect ceasefire agreement

Aug 15
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Congo church distances itself from rebels after pol’s speech in parish

Jul 20
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Displaced and refugees in the East of Democratic Republic of Congo receiving help from the Catholic Church. (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.)

Attacks by Islamists in DR Congo increase in East of African country

Jun 4
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

After meeting president, Congo cardinal plays down church/state crisis

May 20
Ngala Killian Chimtom

People gather at the side of an explosion in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friday, May, 3, 2024. The UN says a bomb at a refugee camp in eastern Congo has killed at least 18 people, including children. The army blamed the attack at the Mugunga refugee camp in North Kivu on a rebel group, known as M23, with alleged links to Rwanda. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Pope Francis condemns ‘act of blind hatred’ in Eastern Congo

May 10
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Hostile Congo regime may be papal candidate’s ideal campaign manager

May 5
John L. Allen Jr.

Clergy, laity protest ‘shameful’ judicial probe of Congo cardinal

May 4
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Cardinal Fridolin Among Besungu leaves after receiving the red three-cornered biretta hat from Pope Francis during a consistory inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Catholic cardinal treated poorly at Congo airport, archdiocese says

Apr 16
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Soldiers accused of rape and crimes against humanity slouch in their chairs during a military tribunal in the town of Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Feb. 16, 2011. Congo has lifted a more than two-decade old moratorium on the death penalty to try and rid the country of traitors and acts of “terrorism”, said the government. The moratorium, established in 2003, has allowed offenders accused of treachery and espionage, guaranteed impunity, said the justice ministry in a statement that emerged Friday, March 15, 2024. (Credit: Pete Muller/AP.)

DR Congo’s reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition

Mar 21
Ngala Killian Chimtom

MONUSCO blue helmet deployed near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Jan. 28, 2022. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Cardinal claims Democratic Republic of Congo’s neighbors fueling country’s violence

Feb 29
Ngala Killian Chimtom