{"id":67935,"date":"2018-02-05T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67935"},"modified":"2018-02-05T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:36:17","slug":"acns-global-prayer-urged-as-tribal-violence-continues-to-claim-lives-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67935","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Global prayer urged as tribal violence continues to claim lives in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglicans around the world are being asked to pray for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo as tribal violence continues to claim lives in the Ituri Province in the north-eastern area of the country. The Ituri city of Bunia is home to one of the largest UN peacekeeping forces in Africa as international troops seek to intercede between the warring Lendu and Hema peoples. At the weekend, 26 people were killed when a Hema village 31 miles (50 km) north of Bunia was attacked by Lendu tribes people. The Revd Bisoke Balikenga, national youth co-ordinator of\u00a0<em>Province de L\u2019Eglise Anglicane Du Congo<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the Anglican Church of Congo \u2013 is urging Anglicans to pray for the country.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the church established a peace centre in Bunia as part of its\u00a0<a title=\"Rape as a weapon of war: Congo Anglicans providing care for victims\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2016\/12\/rape-as-a-weapon-of-war-congo-anglicans-providing-care-for-victims.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">care for women and girls who have been raped by combatants<\/a>. Bisoke, who is helping to run the centre, responded to the weekend\u2019s violence by asking people to pray. He said that 200 houses in the Hema village were burned before residents were killed by machete, creating \u201ca lot of trauma among the Hema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that some shops and petrol stations in Bunia had been closed and that there are \u201csome young people who like to make chaos\u201d. The state governor is leading a delegation to the affected area to see what is happening. \u201cPlease pray for him in order he can bring peace there in that place,\u201d Bisoke said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2018\/02\/global-prayer-urged-as-tribal-violence-continues-to-claim-lives-in-congo.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglicans around the world are being asked to pray for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo as tribal violence continues to claim lives in the Ituri Province in the north-eastern area of the country. The Ituri city of Bunia<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67935\">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":[393,108,553,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-congoprovince-de-leglise-anglicane-du-congo","category-religion-culture","category-republic-of-congo","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935","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=67935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67937,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions\/67937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}