by BWA Staff | Nov 21, 2012 | News
Baptists in Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are urging the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) to assist people displaced by the conflict in the African country. The rebel military group, March 23 Movement (M23), based in eastern areas of the...
by Laura Seay | Aug 4, 2010 | Opinion
The first thing you need to understand about the Kivus region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is that the tension that drives conflict there – over ethnicity, citizenship rights and land rights – developed long before the 1994 Rwandan genocide and long before the...
by Trey Lyon | Feb 8, 2010 | Opinion
Numbers can be overwhelming by any standard. The death toll from the recent earthquake in Haiti has risen to 212,000 people. The U.S. government has announced an unprecedented budget of $3.8 trillion. A popular auto manufacturer has recalled 5.3 million vehicles for...
by Laura Seay | Feb 7, 2010 | Opinion
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is writing again about the Democratic Republic of Congo, based on his brief trip there. In his column titled “Orphaned, Raped and Ignored,” he wrote, “Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake...
by Laura Seay | Oct 20, 2009 | Opinion
Dear MONUC, Washington, Brussels, London and Kinshasa: Forgive me for being so abrupt, but I have a question that demands an answer from you – the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the governments in Washington, Brussels, London and...
