Congo church distances itself from rebels after pol’s speech in parish

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – After video of a politician who heads an armed rebel group speaking at a Catholic parish in violence-plagued eastern Congo went viral, church leaders in Africa’s largest Catholic country are attempting to distance themselves from the impression of lending support to insurrection.

On July 14, Corneille Nangaa, an Evangelical Protestant and the founder of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (“Congo River Alliance”), a rebel group with links to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel movement...