Isidore Bakanja, martyred in 1909, overcame challenges on the path to beatification in 1994. 🇨🇩✝️ His faith and story resonate to this day. 🙏✨ #IsidoreBakanja #ScapularMartyr

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As a Congolese, I'm delighted to see this.
Our minerals are being used to enrich Elon Musk and our people are being exterminated for it.
#TeslaTakedown

Reuters confirms what I reported for NBC last week - that the US is insisting on a Rwandan pullout from DRC if there is to be a peace deal. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Discover the life of the Congolese layman Bwana Chui who will be beatified next Sunday.
www.jhia.ac.ke/stories/clea...

... buried beneath political, economic, and social compromises, as well as tactical redistributions of cards that serve only to establish new internal and geopolitical balances based on the law of the jungle.
Congo bleeds. The world looks away, asking her to submit.
#FreeCongo

3/ If the just opposition to evil must transcend mere retaliation or revenge, seeking instead to break the cycle of violence, it cannot do so at the expense of justice.
A fragile concord may be reached, but true peace remains elusive when justice is relegated to a footnote...

2/ From a cynical political perspective, to stop this situation, dialogue and negotiations that bypass the question of justice and truth appear as the pragmatic and cheaper solution. Talk or perish. But what kind of peace can be built on silence, impunity, and amnesia?

1/Jéremie Nziuvira (6 yrs), Ishaka Mapenzi (7), Kishishe, Bambo, Kanombe, Kitchanga, Mushaki, Goma...
Their blood cries out louder than Abel’s. We are in a situation where those who claim to represent or fight for the liberation and rights of the "oppressed" are the real oppressors and aggressors.

No one has written much until now about Rwandan casualties in the M23 military operation in DRC. But the Rwandan army is taking heavy losses, and Rwandan families are grieving their lost sons. Our investigation for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"It’s time that you stop swimming in the blood of your brothers and sisters for the sake of power. We are here today and gone tomorrow. Let us leave a legacy of peace on this continent.”
Stan Chu Ilo

“Our faith is stronger than our suffering. But then, our faith has to be translated into concrete, daily, affirmative actions to reverse this cycle of violence."

“We cannot give up, or fold our hands and sit back and relax as long as we know our brothers and sisters are suffering and dying. (...)
We need to continue fighting for what is right and what is just; to fight for what honours and brings glory to God.”
Toussaint Kafarhire, SJ

The conflict in the DRC has been ignored for too long.

The Elders call for immediate dialogue, accountability, and the withdrawal of Rwandan forces to end the escalating violence.

Civilians must be protected, and peace must be prioritised.

Read in full: theelders.org/news/elders-...

Kagame’s interest is to “export DRC’s minerals and traumas”. (Toussaint Kafarhire, SJ)

“As a sentinel of the region, Munzihirwa invited Christians of Bukavu and the surrounding area to non-violent resistance, awakening them to a vision of a world of struggles where bullets rub shoulders with wheat and weapons confront the cross,” www.aciafrica.org/news/14133/w...

History will judge the international community’s complacency toward this regime with severe scrutiny.

The unilateral ceasefire declared by M23 is a ploy to ease concerns and reduce international pressure regarding the humanitarian situation. The Rwandan-backed rebellion continues to advance toward South Kivu, even as an EAC-SADC summit looms. Kigali is not interested with peace at all.