Fr. Patrick Lonkoy Bolengu, the representative of the Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM) in DRC has told ACI Africa that nothing prepared him for the devastation that followed the floods, which reportedly killed 33 people, leaving thousands displaced.
“As a Catholic priest, I have stood at the bedside of the sick, prayed beside the dying, and walked with the poor. But nothing prepared me for the sorrow I now witness in my beloved city, Kinshasa,” Fr. Bolengu said in a Wednesday, April 9 interview with ACI Africa.
He added, “On the morning of Saturday, April 5th, heavy rains poured down from the heavens not as a blessing, but as floods that swallowed homes, claimed lives, and left a trail of anguish across our capital.”
“For two days, Kinshasa was torn in two, its people stranded, helpless, grieving,” the Congolese MHM member said, and added, “Today, 33 of our brothers and sisters have died, 46 are hospitalized, and 2,956 have been forced into temporary shelters.”
Source: ACIAfrica
