Pope condemns Congo massacre
Pope John Paul today decried a massacre in Congo that killed almost 1,000 people and appealed for efforts at reconciliation .
He said the killings and summary executions were āno less worrisomeā than the news of ādestruction and deathsā in Iraq.
The Congolese government and the United Nations have agreed to joint investigations of the killing of 966 people in an assault on April 3 on a Roman Catholic mission and surrounding villages in the north-east of the vast central African country.
It has been described as the worst atrocity in Congoās four-and-a-half-year civil war.
