Category: News
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Dennis does it again!
Dennis Tailor has completed another huge personal challenge by cycling 2400 miles from London to Barcelona and back in July. He aims to raise £10,000 for the work CME does to support orphans, and also for RETT (UK). We are very grateful for all the funds that Dennis has raised and thankful that he arrived…
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Dennis is nearly back in UK
Dennis has completed 2,000 miles out of 2,400 by biking from London to Barcelona and back. He is helping to raise funds for us and it has been gruelling with temperatures even higher in France and Spain than here. Please sponsor him at :https://www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/BarcelonaBackToLondon
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Peace talks advance
Peace talks betwwen DRC and Rwanda and also more recently between DRC and the M23 rebel group appear to have been agreed. We wait to see what impact this will have on the country. News from the CME area is that the situation has been calmer.
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Dennis the amazing fundraiser
Dennis Tailor is at it again. Having completed several challenges to raise funds for Friends of CME he is now embarking on his latest and possibly greatest adventure. He is cycling 2400 miles in June from London to Barcelona and back. That is a lot of miles and possibly some sore legs. Please go over…
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Support for orphans and their families – Spring 2025
Thanks to your ongoing generosity Friends of CME has been able to continue supporting orphans at school and university in Eastern DRC. This is despite the high level of ongoing conflict in the region that causes so much instability and disruption to people’s lives. CME staff and their contacts run the programme and are responsible…
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M23 impacts CME in Beni
Over the past two months, about 220 miles south of Beni, where CME operates one of its 3 hospitals, the M23, together with as many as 10,000 to 12,000 Rwandan troops, has overrun an area of eastern Congo that is home to more than five million people. In late January, the rebels captured Goma, the…
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ADF attack kills over 70
Premier Christian Radio reported on 18th February: ‘At least 70 bodies were discovered tied up and beheaded inside a Protestant church in Kasanga, DR Congo, after an attack by ADF rebels, a group affiliated with ISIS. According to The Mirror, the victims were reportedly held hostage for several days before being brutally killed using machetes.”70 bodies were…
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M23 now impacting Bunia
The militia terrorist group ADF is taking advantage of the M23 incursions further south in DRC. Ugandan troops have arrived allegedly to support the DRC army but with the population deeply suspicious. A CME staff member in Bunia wrote “On Thursday, February 27, 2025, an armed group attacked in Nyamamba, near Tchomia, more than 60…
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DRC Unrest
In 2025 Eastern DRC is experiencing a significant increase in warfare, resulting in deaths, displacement and disruption of lives across the Goma and Bukavo areas. The causes of the unrest are multiple and complex. CME works in areas affected by the violence. We are asking for people to pray for CME. Please pray for safety…