Kinshasa, 01 March, 2024 / 9:55 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has described as “distressing” the situation of population that is lacking basic needs amid security challenges.
In his February 29 homily at the Caritas Center in Kinshasa where members of the Standing Committee of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) were meeting for their Ordinary Session, Archbishop Utembi encouraged the listening “to God in our lives, to convert and put our trust in him.”
“The socio-pastoral landscape of our country presents us with some distressing sights: the misery and poverty experienced by some people,” the Congolese Catholic Archbishop said on the last day of the three-day session that focused on the socio-political situation in DRC.
He added, “All we have to do is look at what is happening in areas where there is insecurity and war; we see the multitude of families forced to move in search of hypothetical security; we see human beings without bread, without a roof, without a place to live.”
“This should be of particular concern to us today,” the Congolese Catholic Archbishop said, emphasizing the “distressing” situation of the victims of violence in parts of the Central African nation.
