Frs. Edmond Kisughu, Anselme Wasukundi, and  Jean-Pierre Ndulani, three Assumptionist priests, were kidnapped on October 19, 2012, from their rectory in Mbau, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

They would have been abducted by an armed militia before being sold and then killed by a group of Islamist soldiers.

It was barely two years ago, on October 19, 2012, that three Assumptionist priests, Jean-Pierre Ndulani, Edmond Kisughu and Anselme Wasukundi were kidnapped while at their rectory, in Mbau, in the region of Beni, one of the major towns in the province of North Kivu (DRC).

At that time, no one was able to establish with certitude the circumstances of their abduction, nor what happened to them.

This article was originally published in Le Provocateur (9/25/14), the student newspaper for Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

By Nicholas Collura

One of the characters in Robert Cormier’s novel The Chocolate War keeps a line from T.S. Eliot taped to the inside of his locker: “Do I dare disturb the universe?” Many of us have considered this question in some form or another. Even if we don’t want to disturb the universe, we probably want to know what our place in it is. “Am I important?” we may ask ourselves. “What is my purpose in the world?”

This summer I had the opportunity to visit the Assumptionist communities in Romania and Bulgaria.  In the first part of my trip I was in Bucharest, Romania. An Assumptionist community there operates the St. Peter – St. Andrew Center, which is both a house of studies and a meeting place for Catholics and Orthodox. While there I learned about the work being done to foster relationships between Catholic and Orthodox believers. At a conference hosted by the center we had the opportunity to meet with the Orthodox Bishop of Bucharest and listen as he described the situation in the Orthodox world.

THE ASSUMPTIONIST CENTER...

a place where we learn together,
a place where, together, we discover what it means to be Church.

In order to help that to happen, we need to think and talk together.

And so, we are happy to announce the first of this year’s

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER
on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5

The Church outside of Boston:
A Perspective From Iraq

At this conversation, we are delighted to have Fr. Khalid Marogi share with us his experience of the church in Iraq.