POSTCARDS: IN CENTRAL AFRICA, A CATHEDRAL SHELTERS MUSLIMS AMID SECTARIAN VIOLENCE
DOREEN AJIAMBO, writing for Religion News Service, reports from the Central African Republic…
Dozens killed in Central African Republic attack, including priest who planned to move
World Watch Monitor Dozens, including a Catholic priest, were killed last week as fighting erupted between armed groups in several villages in southern Central African Republic. Father Joseph Désiré Angbabata, 49, the parish priest of Séko village, near Bambari, lost his life when armed men stormed his village parish of Saint Charles LWANGA on 21st […]
Catholic priest stabbed as violence continues in Central African Republic
World Watch Monitor Fr Alain Blaise Bissialo, a priest at Christ-King Parish of Tokoyo, was stabbed by unknown armed men on 4th January. PICTURE: Alain Blaise Bissialo/Facebook Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have condemned a recent upsurge of violence in the country and called on armed groups to lay down their weapons. Fighting […]
Update: CAR’s peace-making leader mourns loss of loved ones as 3,000 shelter inside church
World Watch Monitor As more details emerge, it has been confirmed that it was Rev Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou’s youngest brother and nephew, not his son and grandson, who were killed in the latest eruption of violence in the Central African Republic. A local church leader told World Watch Monitor they may have been targeted because of […]
More tragedy for Central African Republic’s peacekeeping cleric as son and grandson killed in latest violence
World Watch Monitor Rev Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou and his wife Priscilla, in a 2014 photo. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor A new flurry of violence has hit the Central African Republic, a country many hoped had turned a corner following the brutal civil war of 2013 and 2014. Among the victims of the latest violence were […]
‘Christian’ militias kill up to 30 Muslim civilians in Central African Republic
RNS/Reuters Hundreds of civilians are seeking refuge inside a mosque in the Central African Republic’s border town of Bangassou amid ongoing attacks by Christian militias that have killed up to 30 civilians, UN officials and aid workers said on Sunday. The attacks throughout the weekend on the town of Bangassou on the Congolese border have […]