DRC natural resources review press of Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The press today was poor about information on natural resources. Some newspapers have echoed a workshop on the theme "Challenges of the environment, reconciliation, justice and peace in Africa in the light of the Social Teaching of the Church" , So, speaking of environmental protection, the newspaper L'Avenir titles: "Mgr Ambongo and Malumalu: a clarion call to the conscience of Catholics!" Two presentations were given in the morning on Monday, the newspaper said. The guidance of Bishop Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, President of the Board of IPCM and the Abbot Apollinaire Malumalu, Director General of the Pan-African Institute Cardinal Martino speech. During the last four days, in fact, seminarians reflected on and discussed the current challenges of the environment Congo - Kinshasa, Africa and the world. They asked an objective look at our culture in terms of land management and nature. They identified the environmental challenges related to the development and peace, according to the Catholic Church. The issue of national and international standards for environmental management has not escaped the analysis of abbots, priests and religious who work at the hotel Marguerite de Kinshasa. To initiate planning on actions for the protection of the environment at the local Church of CENCO, the country, the region and the continent.
Of its site, the site www.cern-cenco.cd reports that there is a "difficult marriage between mines and school Tshikapa." According to the website of the ad hoc Episcopal Commission for Natural Resources notes "hard to believe, but it is a reality. A Tshikapa, qualified 25th municipality of Kinshasa by the diamond, the parents, girls and boys, struggling to pay school fees. lot of children do not complete their studies for the wedding, in the case of girls, and the mines, compared with boys. Everyone is not in the mines, but diamond does not benefit the entire population, however, is exposed to all the consequences, especially environmental, exploitation of this mineral. "