US EditionA Congolese customs worker who resisted corruption is the Catholic Church's newest model of holiness
- A Congolese customs worker, Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, was killed in 2007 after refusing to allow rancid rice from Rwanda to enter the eastern Congo city of Goma.
- Pope Francis recognized Kositi as a martyr of the faith late last year, setting him on the path to beatification and to possibly become Congo's first saint.
- The beatification has brought joy to Goma amid violence between government forces and M23 rebels, with Kositi seen as a role model for opposing corruption.
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The Vatican beatified a Congolese customs worker killed for resisting a bribe on Sunday, offering young people in a place plagued by corruption a new model of sainthood: someone who refused to allow…
A Congolese customs worker who resisted corruption is the Catholic
The Vatican on Sunday is beatifying a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe, giving young people in a place with endemic corruption a new model of holiness: Someone who refused to allow spoiled rice to be distributed to poor people.
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A Congolese customs worker who resisted corruption is the Catholic Church's newest model of holiness
The Vatican is beatifying a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a part of the world wracked with violence a new model of holiness.
The head of the Vatican office for canonization, Cardinal Marcelo Semeraro, presides over the ceremony in the papal basilica of Saint Paul in Rome, where pilgrims from the Congo and a large part of the Congolese Catholic community in Rome have gathered to receive Pope Leo 14 on Monday.
"Man, as the crown of God's creation, carries within himself the fullness of God's plan, the wisdom of the created universe. Moreover, God created man as a temple of the Holy Spirit, which we received on the day of Pentecost, and therefore the recognition of God before people means the revelation of the holiness of God, which you carry within yourself," emphasized the Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia Sviatoslav Shevchuk. In his sermon, the head …
A young Congolese customs official, who was kidnapped and killed by a gang because he refused to accept a bribe to let go of rotten rice to be distributed to the poor, was given
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