MCC partners in Congo injured in attack

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AKRON, Pa.—Staff members of a Mennonite Central Committee partner organization in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were injured when their vehicle was ambushed by armed men March 20. The group of six men and women was returning to the city of Bukavu in South Kivu province after visiting a site designated for a humanitarian aid project in cooperation with MCC. They work with the Ministry for Refugees and Emergencies, a department of the Church of Christ in Congo, which is known by its French acronym ECC. ECC is a national council of churches that includes Congolese Mennonites. The men and women were beaten, slashed with knives and robbed before being released. The two women in the group were hospitalized with knife cuts and serious bruises.

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