Two days after meeting with President Félix Tshisekedi, the Catholic Church and the Church of Christ in Congo announced plans to initiate a dialogue that includes M23 rebels, who control Goma and have ...

While the Interfaith Platform organized a prayer gathering February 3 in Kinshasa, leaders of the Catholic Church and the ...

In a Jan. 29 report, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development urged the international community to acknowledge the crisis ...

The campaign, which begins on Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, is designated for prayer and awareness of human ...

As the situation gets worse in the DR Congo, the Director of Communication at Caritas Butembo-Beni has decried the ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead U.S. Government aid agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize ...

With the ceasefire, people in Goma rushed to bury what locals say may be as many as 2,000 bodies of the victims of the ...

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people ...

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

The rally on Thursday in Goma’s city stadium was part of the efforts by the rebel group to shore up public support amid growing international pressure after reports have emerged that almost 3,000 ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.