Bishop Henri Isingoma and a group of Anglicans from the Diocese of Boga have arrived safely in Bunia after a recent upsurge in rebel activity forced them to travel for two days through the bush in eastern Congo.
The threat of rebel attacks initially left 150 delegates stranded in Boga at the conclusion of their September 30-October 5 diocesan synod following reports that militia were stationed in Bukiringi, a village about 10 miles away.
Isingoma said in an October 9 statement that the synod members traveled in convoy "using an unusual routing which is in the Equatorial forest…because the usual road from Boga to Bunia is still impassable [due] to militia forces."
According to reports, the rebels' motives are to oppose the central Congolese government and to uproot Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, who heads the Lord's Resistance Army, a militia group that has terrorized the region for more than two decades through widespread massacres and child abductions.
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