Kinshasa, 25 March, 2025 / 8:42 pm (ACI Africa).
Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has expressed solidarity with members of the Missionary Sisters of Santo Domingo who were attacked by a criminal gang in their community.
In a statement shared with the information service of Propaganda Fide, Agenzia Fides, Fr. Clet-Clay Mamvemba, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, relayed Cardinal Ambongo’s closeness with the Sisters who were attacked at their community in the Parish of Kimbanseke of Kinshasa.
“The Cardinal expressed his solidarity with the religious who were victims of this barbarism and encouraged them to resist and be guided by the light of hope,” Cardinal Ambongo said in the Agenzia Fides report published on March 21.
In the report, the Cardinal called on the various Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL) in the country “to increase their vigilance without giving in to panic or fear.”
Agenzia Fides reports that the attack on the Religious community of the Missionary Sisters of Santo Domingo took place on the night of March 18, when members of a gang group known as ‘Kaluna’, armed with machetes, broke into the Sisters’ premises through the wall.
