The Self-Understanding of the Congolese Church during War: CENCO in the Grip of the Greatest Modern Humanitarian Crisis

This article analyses how the National Conference of Congolese Catholic Bishops (CENCO) identified its public mission in society as veilleurs et éveilleurs des consciences (custodians and awakeners of consciences). This perception emerged because of external pressures, namely the phenomenon of war i...

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Main Author: Lokola, Raphael Okitafumba (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Journal of religious history
Year: 2020, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 187-211
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Democratic Republic / Civil war / Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Congo / History 1996-2003
IxTheo Classification:KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDB Roman Catholic Church
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