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Article: Congo bishop, religious forced into jungle.(violence in Congo)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 28, 1999
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A Catholic bishop and most of the priests and religious in his Congo diocese were forced in mid-April to take refuge in the jungle, as the latest civil war in that central African nation drags on.
Though Western attention is focused on the crisis in the Balkans, observers say the African conflict raises equally critical security issues.
Bishop Stanislaus Lukumwena, a Franciscan, along with 13 priests and 15 novices and professed sisters, abandoned the diocese of Kole on April 13 after a detachment of 4,000 government troops descended on the area.
In successive days, other priests, sisters, seminarians and pastoral workers fled the diocese. ...