REVEREND THEODORE NGOY'S VISIT TO THE NORTH EAST

Reverend Theodore Ngoy was the invited  guest speaker at a conference and two public meetings held in Stockton and Middlesbrough between the 1st and 3rd June 2007, facilitated by Justice First.

On the 1st June Reverend Ngoy addressed politicians, and their representatives, at local, national and European level, who had requested he inform them about the extensive violation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  A  video illustrated how his home, the office where he had practised as a lawyer and Gombe church, where he had been pastor, had been deliberately destroyed by fire.  Reverend Ngoy finished this first meeting with a plea that Congolese asylum seekers
should not be deported back to DRC.

On the 2nd June, in Middlesbrough, he addressed members of the Congolese community.  Time was allowed for him to respond thoroughly to all the questions posed by members of the audience, a fact appreciated by those Congolese who had attended this open meeting.  That evening he travelled to Newcastle to meet with those who wish to work and cooperate in
building a republic founded on justice.

The open meeting on the 3rd June in Middlesbrough was attended mainly by British people: representatives from the field of medicine and education and from  Universities in the region.  All had some knowledge of the situation in DRC and  that of the Congolese resident in the UK.  Once again Reverend Ngoy urged British people to call for the deportation of his  fellow countrymen and women to DRC to be stopped.

As facilitators of these meetings we have been very satisfied with the feedback from those who took advantage of the opportunity to hear Reverend Ngoy speak and to question him.  He is in great demand as a speaker  and has been invited by the Congolese community  to lead a conference in Newcastle and in London on the 30th June 2007,  DRC Independence Day, on the theme: "DRC yesterday, today and tomorrow".

We are conscious that Reverend Ngoy undertook an arduous journey to the North East by plane via Bristol and Leeds/Bradford airports.  Yet he gave generously of his time in order to ensure that he left people better informed about his country.

Catherine Ramos
Trustee of Justice First

June 2007 ..."

Comments

[Fido]

Cher Pasteur, je suis vraiment ravi de votre periple pour le but d'informer l'opinion europeenne de la situation que les congolais connait tant qu'a l'exterieur qu'a l'interieur de leur pays. Je vais vous demander en personne de n'est pas vous fatiguer car le mission que vous avez n'est pas venu de vous meme ou de quelqu'un d'autre, mais de L'eternel qui est Jesus Chirst, il vous guidera et vous protegera de toute sorte de menaces et injures dont notre communite utilisent comment indentites. je ne crois pas que le deuxieme mandat de notre pays vous trouvera ici, nous prions a ce que la mission de l'eternel soit accomplie et que sa volonte soit fait aussi.

Si vous avez encore l'idee de continuer vos etudes, je vous conseillerais de faire le droit humain car vous etes l'emissaire de la justice et du bnon traitment de l'etre humain.

Fidel said el omar Mwami wa mboyo

[spark]

I do believe the congo deserve people like you