When a 25-year-old government worker was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border to eastern Congo, he knew the risks of resisting corruption. The young man — Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi — refused nonetheless. It didn’t take long before he was kidnapped.
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“He left us a fight that we must all continue as Christians, as people, as young people in the province of North Kivu,” said Jacques, referring to thePope dissolves Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after abuses uncovered by VaticanPope Francis recognized Kositi as a martyr late last year, setting him on the path to beatification.
Kositi “could have earned a lot of money and made a nice life. Instead, he chose to be a witness to the Gospel,” Tedeschi said. If in the past the Catholic Church identified martyrs who refused to kneel down to false idols, “the idol to which he refused to kneel down was the idol of money.” The Mass brought together family, friends and community members. They reminisced about Kositi’s life, drawing from it lessons about his fight against corruption and inspiration for his martyrdom.
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