{"id":134594,"date":"2025-01-31T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134594"},"modified":"2025-01-31T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:55:30","slug":"church-times-hospitals-in-goma-are-swamped-bishop-warns-in-peace-plea-as-violence-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134594","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Hospitals in Goma are swamped, bishop warns in peace plea\u00a0as violence escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-drc\">Congolese<\/a>\u00a0city of Goma are \u201cterrified in their homes\u201d, the Bishop, the Rt Revd Martin Gordon, has said, as violence escalates and humanitarian conditions worsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Operations by the rebel armed group M23, which is backed by Rwanda, and Congolese Army forces have blocked key roads and closed all supply lines to Goma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishop Gordon, who left Goma this week, said on Wednesday that people in the city were without power and in many areas there was no water. \u201cThe M23 seems to have control of large parts of the city,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Congolese army are resisting in other areas. Civilians are being caught in the crossfire. Bodies are lying in the streets; 4000 prisoners have escaped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camps of internally displaced persons had emptied, he said, as people fled to the city centre; churches were \u201cfilling as places of refuge\u201d, and hospitals were \u201coverwhelmed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/31-january\/news\/world\/hospitals-in-goma-are-swamped-bishop-warns-in-peace-plea-as-violence-escalates\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hospitals in Goma are swamped, bishop warns in peace plea as violence escalates <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TbawjMm5LS\">https:\/\/t.co\/TbawjMm5LS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1884958921153974779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in the\u00a0Congolese\u00a0city of Goma are \u201cterrified in their homes\u201d, the Bishop, the Rt Revd Martin Gordon, has said, as violence escalates and humanitarian conditions worsen. Operations by the rebel armed group M23, which is backed by Rwanda, and Congolese<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134594\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,106,108,553,521,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-congoprovince-de-leglise-anglicane-du-congo","category-military-armed-forces","category-religion-culture","category-republic-of-congo","category-rwanda-africa","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134598,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134594\/revisions\/134598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}