KINSHASHA MARCH 3, 2017 (CISA) – Congolese Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CENCO) has urged the United Nations peacekeepers in the country to protect the local communities. The bishops also asked the citizens to be patience on the church-brokered peace accord and warned that manipulation is fuelling threats against the Church. “The long wait for a peaceful democratic alternative is expressing itself in impatience and tension even toward our bishops’ conference, which is only trying to mediate. Recurrent threats and violence are being fuelled by manipulation shamefully directed against the Catholic Church,” the bishops said. The bishops’ conference launched a mediation bid when opposition leaders accused Kabila of seeking to retain power after his second and final term expired December 20, 2016.