Human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be the topic of a workshop bringing together high-level representatives of government, churches and international organisations in the country's capital, Kinshasa, 13-17 April, reports CISA. Speakers at the workshop include the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, and the DRC justice minister Luzolo Bambi. Others are ministers in charge of planning, economy and gender issues, the national president of the Church of Christ in Congo the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), vice-president Methodist Bishop David Yemba, as well as other prominent representatives of state, church and civil society. The organizers were the World Council of Churches (WCC) with the co-operation of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), participants come from the different provinces of DRC as well as neighbouring Angola, Rwanda and Burundi.
Pray: that this meeting of minds will result in a powerful pressure group for human rights in central Africa. (Rom.15:5)