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Burundi Bishops’ Concerns about 2020 Elections Infuriate Government, Calls for Defrocking

Sep 24, 2019

The concerns, which the Catholic Bishops of Burundi have raised regarding the general elections in their country slated to take place next year, have infuriated the government, with some high-ranking officials calling for the Bishops to be deprived of their ecclesiastical status, various international media have reported.

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