Tag: Seleka

Clerics call on UN military force to secure Central African Republic

October 22, 2013 Central African Republic Bangui, Chad, Seleka, Sudan, UN

Church leaders in the Central African Republic have issued a joint appeal for international action.World Watch Monitor The leaders of the Central African Republic’s 4 million Christians have issued a joint plea for military help to disarm a largely Muslim insurgency and prevent “genocidal interfaith civil war”. Meeting Oct. 3-6 . . . Read More

Catholic clerics mugged at gunpoint in Central African Republic

October 3, 2013 Central African Republic Bangui, Bossangoa, Bozoum, Michel Djotodia, Seleka

Fr. Beniamino Gusmeroli was attacked by armed men on Friday.ACN Two Catholic clerics in the Central African Republic were bound and robbed by armed men on Friday, Sept. 27. Italian missionary Fr. Beniamino Gusmeroli, and Fr. Martial Mengue, a Central African deacon, were attacked by men believed to be . . . Read More

Interfaith conflict threatens to engulf Central African Republic

September 18, 2013 Central African Republic Bossangoa, Michel Djotodia, Seleka

Red Cross workers bury a corpse near Bossangoa on Sept 16.World Watch Monitor Clashes between Christians and Muslims in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) have increased fears of a prolonged interfaith divide in the country. The CAR, which borders Chad, Sudan and the Congos, was one of . . . Read More

CAR rebels killed; church attacked

August 26, 2013 Central African Republic Central African Republic, Seleka

A spiral of reprisal violence in the western portion of the Central African Republic this month has resulted in the desecration of a Catholic parish and has forced 18 priests and nuns to flee, according to Agenzia Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news service. The trouble began earlier this month when . . . Read More

Police arrest pastor for Sunday sermon

August 7, 2013 Central African Republic Bangui, Central African Republic, Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou, Seleka

Angered by a Sunday sermon, police in the Central African Republic arrested Rev. Nicolas Guerékoyamé on Tuesday (6 August), releasing him several hours later. Authorities accused Guerékoyamé, president of the Evangelical Alliance in the Central African Republic, of making “excessive and extremist comments” and “striking a blow at the dignity . . . Read More

World abandons C. African Republic in hour of need, MSF says

July 19, 2013 Central African Republic Seleka

International health NGO Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) says the population of the Central African Republic has been “abandoned” to a humanitarian emergency “just when they most need help”, and that the country’s healthcare system has collapsed. With most NGOs and aid agencies withdrawing to the capital, Bangui, citing . . . Read More

C. African Republic religious leaders consider plan for country otherwise ‘likely to explode’

June 21, 2013 Central African Republic African Union, Bria, Michel Djotodia, Oumar Kobine Layama, Seleka

The aftermath of a Séléka attack in Dekoa village.CECA As a significant risk of interfaith conflict looms over the Central African Republic (CAR), the leaders of the two main religions in the country – Christianity and Islam – have decided to speak with one voice. The CAR was plunged . . . Read More

OIC letter from C. African Republic President sought support for Islamic republic

May 22, 2013 Central African Republic African Union, Alindao, Bambari, Bangassou, Bangui, Bossangoa, Catholics, Kaga Bandoro, Michel Djotodia, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Seleka

Michel Djotodia, CAR President.Crispin for World Watch Monitor The Catholic Church in the Central African Republic (CAR) has written a letter to the former rebel leader and new President, Michel Djotodia, raising concerns about his past and asking him to speak out against the suffering inflicted on civilians by . . . Read More

Church shelled, seven Christians killed in Central African Republic

April 16, 2013 Central African Republic Michel Djotodia, Seleka

A weekend of violence in the Central African Republic included three artillery shells that crashed into a church and killed seven people, according to a pastor. At least 20 people were reported dead after gun battles in sectors of Bangui, capital of the republic, where an alliance of rebel groups . . . Read More

Anxiety high as rebels take over Central African Republic

March 25, 2013 Central African Republic Bambari, Bangassou, Bangui, Gambo, Michel Djotodia, Seleka

A three-month-old rebel uprising in the Central African Republic swept into the country’s capital Sunday, ousting the president and leaving ransacked Christian homes and churches in its wake. A source close to the Episcopal Conference of the Central African Republic told World Watch Monitor that many Christians’ properties have been . . . Read More

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