“Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa (DR-Congo) are renting out meeting rooms and running eateries and coffee shops to help pay the bills and attain financial autonomy”
“A priest and seminarian taken hostage and later released after armed assailants storm into St. Octavian Major Seminary in the Diocese of Butembo-Beni ”
“A member of the Srs of St Andrew in the DR of Congo, the 63yr is now one of Africa's leading theologians, focusing on abuse and abusive structures in the Catholic Church and society...Pope Francis, in 2021, named Sr Ngulala to the Vatican-sponsored International Theological Commission.”
“The DRC is one of the giants of Africa in terms of its size and its natural resources. It is likely to play an important role in the fight against climate change, preserving its rainforest and its biodiversity. But the country is also one of the poorest in the world. The government is weak,”
“Pope Francis, who had to cancel his trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan past July, will now visit the two African countries in January-February 2023.”
“Pope Francis could visit DR-Congo and South Sudan "at the beginning of February". "The doctor had advised against it, now I can walk, with a cane, but I manage," said the pope who had announced an apostolic trip to these two countries in July 2022 before postponing them because of his health.”
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Parishes in African diocese launch money-making ventures to cover expenses
Gunmen attack Catholic seminary in eastern DR-Congo
Leading African theologian says her early work was mocked
The Congolese nightmare
Vatican confirms pope's travel to DR Congo, South Sudan in early 2023
Pope Francis plans to visit Africa in February
