This is one of the most important conversations I have had in recent times. Sister Ania Nowakowska and all the hospital staff are standing fast in the rebel besieged Ntamugenga. Extraordinary people who are displaying the highest heroism. They know that if they were to leave, the hope of hundreds of hospital patients and thousands of refugees from surrounding villages, who now only feel safe within the walls of the Good Factory-supported facility, will be extinguished. We talk for less than a quarter of an hour. In the background we hear gunshots and explosions. A stray bullet flies through the ceiling of one of the rooms in the hospital. We don’t know what the next few hours will bring, or how long our hospital will be a safe haven for the terrified people of North Kivu. We believe that evil will not be allowed to enter where we have been producing good over the past years.

Think of Congo today. Think of our hospital, all its staff, patients and, last but not least, of the missionaries who are constantly on standby. Pray for them and support them any way you possibly can.

Mateusz Gasiński