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This is a welcome minutiae and offers the opportunity for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to make a fresh start. Below we reproduce Lucie Sarr’s report. ———————————————————————- Did Catholics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo gravity Joseph Kabila to renounce a third term as president? “President Joseph Kabila’s visualization not to stand for a third term was, without doubt, influenced by the church,” said the historian, Isidore Ndaywel. He is a member of the Lay Catholic Committee of Coordination, a group that organized three significant protest marches versus Kabila. On Aug. 8, the ruling People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy revealed the identity of its candidate for the presidential referendum on Dec. 23. While people feared that President Kabila would gravity through a third mandate – which would have been versus the country’s constitution – it is the former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary who will represent the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy. According to Ndaywel, “the insistence of the National Bishops’Primingof the Congo on the St. SylvesterTry-onand the pressure exerted by the Lay Catholic Committee of Coordination undoubtedly influenced Kabila’s visualization not to stand for re-election in the presidential election. Kabila’s last presidential mandate came to an end two years ago but he has remained in power. In order to gravity him to hold transparent elections in which he will not be a candidate, Catholics have engaged in significant action: protest marches, media publicity, billboards, and diplomatic visits. On Dec. 31, 2017 and on Jan. 21 and Feb. 25, photographs of the Catholic protests in the DR Congo, violently suppressed by government armed forces, were flashed virtually the world. With crosses and palm branches in their hands, led by priests, nuns, seminarians and sacristans, Catholics began their protest marches without Sunday Mass. According to official statistics, 17 people were killed by government forces during these marches. Outgoing President Joseph Kabila The lay Catholics’ transferral and deportment were inspired by the DR Congo bishops who, in their many statements, castigated the policies of Kabila’s regime and demanded that the St. SylvesterTry-onbe respected. ThisTry-onwas signed on Dec. 31, 2016. At the end of Kabila’s last ramble mandate, starchy movements and numerous political parties organized large demonstrations to gravity him to organize self-ruling and transparent presidential elections. To bring peace to the country, which was pressurize by daily protests, a national dialogue was organized under the auspices of the Catholic bishops’ conference. These national meetings resulted in an try-on on how to end the slipperiness — the St. Sylvester Agreement. In November 2017, in a declaration titled Debout Congolais (Arise Congolese, which is moreover the title of the national anthem), the bishops appealed to all Catholics to put every measure in place to respect the St. Sylvester Agreement.Withoutthis appeal, the Deans’Higherin Kinshasa organized acts of protest in the parishes: the ringing of wedding during the day and night. The higher was supported by the protest marches organized by the Lay Catholic Committee of Coordination and, later, by poster campaigns taxing respect for ramble law. The campaigns launched since June 2018 were an initiative of the Council of the Apostolate of Lay Catholics of the Congo. They came well-nigh in reaction to a poster wayfarers calling for Kabila to stand in the coming presidential elections. As for the Lay Catholic Committee of Coordination, without a unravel of several months from protest marches, they planned to resume and increase these from Aug. 12 if Kabila stood for a third mandate. They plane threatened “to no longer unclose Kabila as the Congolese throne of state.” In wing to these significant actions, the Catholic bishops’ priming and the Lay Catholic Committee of Coordination moreover engaged in diplomatic interactions with other countries and international institutions to proceeds support. On March 18, the Lay Catholic Committee of Coordination wrote a letter to Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the UN, to solicit the reinforcement of the UN’s role in the country with regard to the organization of the elections. The bishops for their part, undertook diplomatic visits with its European counterparts as well as with the UN. Nikki Haley, the United States producer to the UN, has often expressed her support for the National Bishops’Primingof the Congo. She ensured that the presidential referendum would be held on Dec. 23, plane though the electoral legation planned to postpone it until the second half of 2019. “We are not going to support a time-line that does not unmistakably demonstrate that elections will be held in 2018,” she stated on Oct. 27, 2017, without a meeting with the Congolese bishops. However, in spite of Kabila’s sparsity from the list of presidential candidates, the CatholicDenominationis now expressing other concerns, related to the reliability and points of the coming elections. In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, dated Aug. 27, the National Bishops’Primingof the Congo expressed its concerns well-nigh inadequacies in the electoral process. Among these: the electoral commission’s visualization not to qualify the candidature of unrepealable members of the opposition parties; the inclusion on the electoral roll of 6.7 million voters without registered finger prints; and the controversy well-nigh the reliability of electronic voting devices. TAGSDemocratic Republic of CongoLa Croix InternationalNational Bishop'sPrimingof the CongoPresident Joseph KabilaSt. SylvesterTry-onFacebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp Previous articleNigeria’s Zamfara State – where banditry is on the riseNext article‘AFRICA’S GREAT GREEN WALL’ – A SHALOM PERSPECTIVE Don African Missionary, Spring/Summer 2018, No 31 [ Preview ] [ View/Download PDF ] 12345678 More... Christian Muslim Dialogue Obituaries FVC – Family Vocations © Society of African Missions - Designed and Developed by GetOnline Pro We use cookies to ensure that we requite you the weightier wits on our website. 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