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DR Congo priest, wounded in attack on convent, dies
August 10, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: Armed men in Kwilu Province (map) attacked a convent at a parish and killed Father Godefroid Pembele, according to Congolese French-language media reports.
“The bandits went there to steal because the parish was preparing to celebrate a ‘Mass of the first fruits’ for one of its priests who was just recently ordained,” said the mayor of Kikwit, the province’s largest city.
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