{"id":6439,"date":"2025-02-18T04:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2025-02-18T04:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:42:32","slug":"drc-bishops-stress-need-for-ceasefire-dialogue-and-human-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/02\/18\/drc-bishops-stress-need-for-ceasefire-dialogue-and-human-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC bishops stress need for ceasefire, dialogue, and human dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to Article:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/262177\/drc-bishops-stress-need-for-ceasefire-dialogue-and-human-dignity\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/262177\/drc-bishops-stress-need-for-ceasefire-dialogue-and-human-dignity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catholic Bishop that heads the Justice, Peace, and Development(JPDC) of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar(SECAM-JPDC) has made appeals for the violence in the East of the DRC to cease. The statement that Bishop Stephan Dami Mamza of Nigeria signed appealed for an Immediate Ceasefire in the area and reinforcement of prior peace deals. The Bishop claimed that as a Christian, he and others cannot be indifferent to the violence going on around them. The statement also addresses the region&#8217;s need for food, water, and medicine. The Bishop also scolds the Humanitarian agencies for not providing adequate aid but also for trying \u201cto cool down the present animosity between the parties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately, I don\u2019t think the Bishop&#8217;s statement will lead to much of anything, despite 95% of the DRC population being Christian (50% are Catholic) and ~85% of the Rwandan population being Christian(45% are Catholic). This conflict has nothing to do with religion; deep-seated political ideologies resurface. The Bishop likely made this statement to call global attention to the issue. If the Bishop could get to the ear of the Pope, that could significantly increase the Humanitarian aid. This conflict stems from the identity wars born during the Rwandan Genocide. It\u2019s Tutsi extremists against Hutu extremists\/refugees. Even sharing the same religion is not enough to bridge over the scars left by the Genocide. The Bishop has to know this; he has to see that the ceasefire deal will fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DRC and Rwanda could put aside differences out of religious respect, but even if that did happen, M23 is a rebel group that holds no alliance to anyone but its ideology. It will continue what it is doing one way or another. M23 is a National Security threat to the DRC. By proxy, Rwanda is also a National Security threat to the DRC by backing M23. It is possible that M23 could become an international threat, but that seems unlikely at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to Article:https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/262177\/drc-bishops-stress-need-for-ceasefire-dialogue-and-human-dignity The Catholic Bishop that heads the Justice, Peace, and Development(JPDC) of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar(SECAM-JPDC) has made appeals for the violence in the East of the DRC to cease. The statement that Bishop Stephan Dami Mamza of Nigeria signed appealed for an Immediate Ceasefire in the area and reinforcement of prior peace&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/02\/18\/drc-bishops-stress-need-for-ceasefire-dialogue-and-human-dignity\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}