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… of killings and abductions in two towns near the borders of the Central African Republic and Congo. In one case guerrillas stormed into a Catholic church in Ezo and desecrated the Eucharist, …

… John L. Allen Jr. … A boy injured by fighting in in eastern Congo sits in a hospital. Pope Benedict XVI's newest encyclical addresses social issues, … other concerns. (CNS photo/Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters) A boy injured by fighting in in eastern Congo sits in a hospital. Pope Benedict XVI's newest encyclical addresses social issues, …

… The gunmen robbed them of cash and cell phones, and then opened fire. A priest from the Congo suffered serious wounds; Larry died then and there. I behold the scene and feel …

… In 2007, Laurent Monsengwo was named archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making him a possibility to become the first African pope since St. Gelasius in the fifth century. Monsengwo comes from a royal family in Congo’s Basakata tribe. (“Monsengwo” means “grandson of the traditional chief.”) He was the first …

… -- a war in the Great Lakes region that at one point involved the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Angola, and that has left an estimated five million …

… of witchcraft sought refuge at the Santa Child Centre run by the Catholic Church in M'banza Congo, the capital of Zaire Province, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Similar ferment happens in other countries. In Nigeria, for example, an elderly woman was …

… is to mark the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity, during the era of the Mbanza Congo kingdom. The monarch at the time, Alfonso I Mbemba-a-Nzinga, accepted baptism as a …

… Biya gets credit for keeping the peace in a tough neighborhood (Cameroon borders both Chad and Congo-Brazzaville), his regime is also seen as undemocratic, relying on intimidation and …

… whose business dealings stretched throughout Belgium, as well as into China and the Belgian Congo. Two months before his 17th birthday, Jadot entered the Catholic University of Louvain. He … military. From 1952 to 1960 he was chaplain to the Congolese troops in the then-Belgian Congo. From 1960 to 1968 he was Belgian national director of the the Propagation of the Faith. …

… an annual loss of 15 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Upheaval in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, according to one estimate, has left four million people dead – conflict fueled in part by a global scramble for Congo’s mineral resources, including cobalt, which is used in cell phone batteries. On a recent …

… worsening,” he said. The pope also prayed for “the men and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially in the war-torn region of Kivu; Darfur, in Sudan; and Somalia, whose …

… Jamaicans for Justice; Denis Mukwege, cofounder of the General Referral Hospital of Panzi in Congo; and Human Rights Watch. Presenting the awards will be the president of the U.N. General …

… Her brother, children and parents had been murdered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s decade-long war. What hope was left? But she saw a baby, alive, on the ground near her … last decade there has been fighting among various factions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. The war has taken the lives of more than 5 million people due to the conflict or …

… exclude millions of poor people from existence? The most forgotten crisis in the world is the Congo. Four million people have been killed there in the last few years. This is a failure of …

… a new respect for life and one another," he said. Migliore also stressed the need for peace in Congo. He said the Holy See condemned "the massacres being committed under the eyes of the … Press, the U.N. Security Council agreed Nov. 20 to send 3,100 more peacekeeping troops to Congo. Currently, there are 17,000 peacekeepers in the war-torn region where nearly 300,000 …