Help refugees fleeing Lord’s Resistance Army, pleads Congo bishop
CWN - January 05, 2010
Following a rampage by the Lord’s Resistance Army that left hundreds dead, a parish ransacked, and over 300 abducted, a bishop in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo is pleading for assistance for 2,000 refugees. “The population is not assisted by anyone,” says Bishop Julien Andavo Mbia of Isiro-Niangara. “Once again, the LRA rebels have sown death and destruction … Defenseless people die without any guilt. I am sending out an SOS to anyone who can help these poor people.”
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- "We have 2,000 refugees to help," said the Bishop of Isiro-Niangara (Fides)
- Congo bishop fears ‘bloody Christmas’ (CWN, 12/21/09)
- Congo: Monastery again attacked; archdiocese appeals to nation’s president for protection (CWN, 12/16/2009)
- ‘Untold rebel terror’ in Democratic Republic of the Congo as silent genocide continues (CWN, 10/16/09)
- Lord’s Resistance Army (Wikipedia)
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