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Pope accepts resignation of Cardinal Gracias, 80, as Archbishop of Bombay

Democratic Republic of the Congo

An aerial view shows a flooded area in Ombaka Village, Kisumu, Kenya, April 17, 2024. (Credit: AP.)

After latest boat disaster, Congo bishops chide government on waterway safety

Oct 7, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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, March 13, 2024. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Cardinal calls for a new narrative to end Democratic Republic of Congo’s decades-long wars

Sep 26, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Congo bishops blast government over carnage during mass prison break

Sep 9, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

(Credit: Catholic Diocese of Uvira.)

Congolese cardinal hopes beatification of martyrs will restore peace to DRC

Aug 20, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

M23 rebels load a pickup truck in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. Aid organisations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major city and leave millions of people struggling for food and medical help.(Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Bishops in DR Congo urge Church to pray for peace in troubled country

Feb 23, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

African bishops lament ‘death, devastation and division’ in eastern Congo

Oct 28, 2023
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Congo bishops condemn use of force against peaceful protestors

May 26, 2023
Ngala Killian Chimtom