Amid what threatened to become a serious Church v. State clash in Africa’s largest Catholic country, the cardinal threatened with prosecution for sedition in the Democratic Republic of Congo met on 16 May with the country’s president and afterward attributed the previous tensions to “misunderstandings”.
“There has been more misunderstanding than a real problem,” said Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa after his encounter with President Félix Tshisekedi at Congo’s Presidential Palace, where the chargé d’affaires of the Vatican embassy in Congo, Monsignor Andriy Yevchuk, was also present.
