Congo’s second election since the “official” end of the civil war in 2003 was held in November.  Last week the election results were finally released, with the incumbent, Joseph Kabila being declared the winner with 49% of the vote to opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi taking 32%.
Officials from the Carter Center have said that the official results [...]

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I received an email after my last blog from a rep at attentionusa.com.  They are a NYC PR firm working to help get the word out about Reporter, last year’s documentary by Eric Daniel Metzgar about Nicholas Kristof that premiered at Sundance in 2009.  It will be airing on HBO this month and they offered [...]

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When I saw her picture my first thought was, “there is no way that is her…”
Saturday night as I was wrapping up my work, I stopped to check my twitter feed. As I opened my favorite twitter client I saw at the top of the list a tweet from Nicholas Kristof. If you [...]

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I have received many questions in the past from viewers of our podcast about the role of missions in Africa. Some comments have been from atheists wondering whether missionaries can truly have an impact. I came to my own conclusions on these questions mostly from what I have seen, felt, touched, and experienced [...]

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It was only about a month ago that we decided to go on this trip – so we had a very small window to get organized before we left. As we were getting ready I had a very strong feeling that there was no way to have everything worked out before we got here. [...]

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If you haven’t been watching our video podcast over at www.congocast.org – we are about to post Episode 13 (Sometime in the next few days as we wait on some swahili translation to get done).
You can catch up on all of the episodes using the nifty little viewer below (HINT: Make sure you start at [...]

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EPISODE 11 – We’ve been working on our next Episode (EP 11) – and it will be up by the end of the week (we are shooting for Thursday morning). Check back later in the week as we get ready to post Episode 11!
MAOMBI MISSION – Many of you have already signed up for [...]

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As many of you may have noticed – the DR Congo has been featured in the US media in recent weeks. We have provided some of the links to these news stories below for you to check out. Of specific interest is the 60 Minutes story by Anderson Cooper as he speaks with Dr. [...]

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As many of you may have heard, the eastern Congo experienced a major earthquake on Sunday, February 3rd. The 4.5 magnitude earthquake was located in the Great Lakes region between the Congo / Rwanda border (An area that includes the town where Robin and Wendy had been serving). We have heard word that the [...]

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Last night CBS Evening News ran a story by coorespondent Anderson Cooper (click here to watch his report). He interviewed Dr. Denis Mukwege, the head doctor at the Panzi Hospital, which was highlighted in Episode 7 and Episode 8 of the podcast. The story on CBS is a long needed spotlight by the American media [...]

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