Comboni Missionaries - Isiro - DR Congo

Comboni Missionaries. The new parish, which is dedicated to Saint Anne, has about 15,000 inhabitants, including 8,000 Christians. It is made up of people belonging to different groups: mostly Mayogo and Mangbetu, then Azande, Babudu, Logo… This helps to create a spirit of openness through confrontation with other customs and also to promote learning Lingala as a common language.

Isiro is an important commercial center with several banks and companies which bring a certain social welfare.

It is on the outskirts of this city that the new mission of Ste Anne will be born. On 15.4.1971, Bishop Mgr De Wilde set the limits of the mission of Ste Anne. We will have to wait until March 1994 for the Bishop, Mgr Aiti, to raise this mission to the rank of parish.

The parish is developing in the organization of pastoral work and through the birth of various initiatives such as the CEBs, the Bilenge ya Mwinda groups, a social center for the training of mothers in light domestic work, assistance to the poor of the parish. , the group of acolytes and Anuarite, the parish council and the group of catechist mothers. These bring together the children of the neighborhood to introduce them to the first Christian formation which is often insufficient in their families.