DRC: Kinshasa’s Archbishop delivers politically loaded Christmas message

The Archbishop of Kinshasa’s Christmas message is likely to cause further tension between the Catholic church and the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Preaching during Christmas eve mass, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo accused the authorities of failing to bring about peace, and to end the misery of the population.

Ambongo said that the country was living through ‘hellish conditions’, citing war in the east and widespread poverty.

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