Anglican Communion News Service

Bishop Masimando Katanda and his wife Naomi, from the Anglican Diocese of Kindu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) visited Victoria in early December as guests of CMS. They talked to Beryl Rule about the work the Church is doing there to repair the ravages of the 1998-2003 civil war.

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At the invitation of Archbishop Fidele Dirokpa, Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, attended the Provincial Synod meeting of L'Eglise Anglicane du Congo held in Bunia last week. The synod meeting was held immediately after a round table discussion with overseas partners, the first time that such a meeting had been held. The Synod meeting began with an opening eucharist

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We, the Bishops of the Anglican Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, (DRCongo) gathered in Kinshasa, its capital city, on behalf of the clergy and laity from the DRCongo, take this opportunity to officially express our unhappiness regarding the issues which have recently arisen pertaining to the issues of homosexuality and the blessing of same-sex relationships which we believe are contrary to Holy Scripture, and to moral law in the Third World. We therefore strongly condemn:

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Episcopal Relief and Development is aiding over one thousand displaced families in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after continued violence and ethnic clashes.

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Humanitarian organisations warned of possible massacres of ethnic Hema civilians during the night after the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and ethnic Ngiti and Lendu militias on Thursday stormed Bunia in North Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), forcing the Union des patriotes congolais (UPC) rebel movement that had controlled the city to flee.

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The Anglican Communion office in London has received the following information from the Congo:

"The Revd Basimaki Byabasaija, the assistant to the diocesan secretary and the coordinator of the HIV/AIDS network in the Diocese of Boga (Congo) was killed yesterday between Boga and Burasi by wangiti belligerents while trying to cross and get ready to travel to Hong Kong to attend the Anglican Consultative Council-12 meeting in Hong Kong. His body has been so mutilated that it has to be collected to get buried.

We ask for your prayers as the situation seems a bit far from being under control."

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New outbreaks of fighting in eastern DR Congo has left at least 100 dead and caused more than 3,500 to flee over the Ugandan border and there are fears for the safety of the Christian community including the country's Anglican Archbishop.

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The latest rebel conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo broke out in August 1998. Today more than half the country is under the control of various rebel groups, with 1.1 million people displaced by the fighting.

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On October 13, 1998, about 11:00 a.m. two officers from Brigade 40 came to the Headquarters of the Diocese, located at 1307 Chaussee de Kasenga/Kampemba. They arrived in a Jeep with their bodyguards.

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In October 1996, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees, displaced by the 1994 Rwandan genocide, were forced to move from UNHCR refugee camps in Zaire. Camouflaged in their number were the feared Interahamwe, 70,000 Hutu militia who led the killings of moderate Hutus and 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda two years before. As the refugees and Interahamwe moved towards Rwanda the Interahamwe killed Zairean villagers and kidnapped children to provide human shields.

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