{"id":35495,"date":"2020-06-24T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35495"},"modified":"2020-06-24T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:20:48","slug":"acn-offers-vital-lifeline-to-sisters-in-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/06\/24\/acn-offers-vital-lifeline-to-sisters-in-the-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"ACN offers vital lifeline to Sisters in the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To ensure the survival of almost 70 communities of Sisters ministering in part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) beset by conflict and violence, Aid to the Church in Need has provided emergency help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As COVID-19 restrictions mean Sisters have lost their means of financial support, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is providing communities serving in the ecclesiastical province of Bukavu, a region suffering from ethnic conflict, natural disasters and attacks by militia groups, following an urgent appeal from Archbishop Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Maroy of Bukavu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christine du Coudray, ACN head of DRC projects said: \u201cWhile all of the non-governmental organisations have fled because of the ongoing conflict, the Church and in particular the religious are still there, close to the most severely disadvantaged groups, like good souls, unrecognised but fully in the spirit of Mother Teresa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added: \u201cThis conflict has been smouldering for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHow often have I visited them after yet another attack by rival gangs, after they became victims of rape and massacres that spared no one, after they survived earthquakes, landslides or awe-inspiring floods, as has just happened in Uvira [some 60 miles south of Bukavu] \u2013 catastrophes that obliterate everything in their wake and cut a wide swathe of destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sisters often depend on work in parishes and schools to support themselves \u2013 but the Church has had to shut these to tackle the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Medical workers, including many religious Sisters, are paid according to the number of patients they treat \u2013 but with people reluctant to go to the hospitals, fearing they will contract COVID-19, Sisters have suffered drastic cuts to, or even a complete loss of, their income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ACN aid package helping 464 Sisters, comes on top of Mass stipends supporting 289 priests in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure the survival of almost 70 communities of Sisters ministering in part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) beset by conflict and violence, Aid to the Church in Need has provided emergency help. 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