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August 4, 2013

Changed forever by ‘Women of Courage’

Sister Mary-Ellen Francoeur dances with women quarry workers at Nyatende, South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Francoeur spent two weeks in the Congo with a KAIROS delegation.

I spent two weeks in June in the Republic of Congo representing the Canadian Religious Conference as part of a five-person delegation called The Women of Courage. The delegation’s name was deeply inspiring and humbling.

Published in Canada
March 5, 2012

Fire triggers explosions in Brazzaville, razing church, other buildings

This video image made from DRTV shows a cloud of smoke rising into the sky as blasts rocked Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo Sunday March 4, 2012 after a weapons depot caught fire. One of the buildings that collapsed was St. Louis Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY - A Catholic church where Sunday Massgoers were just leaving was among dozens of buildings flattened by a series of explosions triggered by a fire at a military munitions depot in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

Government officials suspect a short-circuit set off the fire at the military storage facility early March 4, causing huge fires and a series of explosions that devastated Mpila, a neighborhood on the eastern edge of Brazzaville, causing the collapse of several buildings, including St. Louis Catholic Church, according to news reports.

Published in International