AFRICA/CONGO DRC - Three years after the disappearance of the three Congolese Assumptionists, no word on their fate

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is still room for hope" says Fr. Joseph Delvordre, of the congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) talking to the Congolese newspaper "Le Potentiel" three years after the death of three confreres, Jean-Pierre Ndulani, Anselme Wasikundi and Edmond Bamutute, on the evening of October 19, 2012 (see Fides 22/10/2012), who were in their parish of Notre-Dame des Pauvres Mbau, 22 km from Beni, in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo).
Fr. Delvordre recalls that an Assumptionist father had been released in 1958 after 11 years in prison in the then Soviet Union. In the case of the three religious Congolese we do not know anything about their fate, we do not know if they are still alive.
Fr. Benoit Grière, Superior General of the Augustinians of the Assumption who is on a mission in the province of Africa, complains about "the lack of information that persists around the kidnapping of the Assumptionist priests since 19 October 2012". Fr. Grière has asked the faithful to pray for them. The kidnapping was marked by the spread of false news on the fate of the three religious (see Fides 08/07/2014). (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 21/10/2015)

Share:

area crisis

---

---

missionary institutes

---

---