“Once one part of the body is in pain the whole body suffers,” Fr. Bolengu said.
He described DRC as “a country full of natural resources, yet one of the world’s poorest countries”.
“People in my country especially in the Parish that I am serving in the rural area of Kinshasa are crying due to the many challenges they are facing. The main one is poverty,” the Congolese MHM Priest told ACI Africa.
He said that the Congolese are too poor to fend for themselves, let alone supporting the Church. The result of the abject poverty is a high rate of early pregnancies, many teenage mothers, and people dying at a young age leaving behind many orphans.
In Plateaux de Bateke and other impoverished areas, he said, there is a high unemployment rate and drug abuse. “Sad enough, many children have become street children, and many do not go to school due to the lack of school fees and scholastic materials,” he said.
Source: ACIAfrica
