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The Congolese nun who's been invited to meet the Pope< BBC Newsday Sister Angelique Namaika works in the remote Congolese village of Dungu with survivors of displacement and abuse by the Lord's Resistance Army. She founded the Centre for Reintegration and Development which has helped transform the lives of more than 2,000 women and girls who have been forced from their homes and abused. Many of those she helps recount stories of abduction, forced labour, beatings, murder, and rape. On Monday The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that this year's Nansen Refugee Award is being awarded to Sister Angelique and Pope Francis has invited her to the Vatican to meet him. She's been been speaking to Newsday's Shaimaa Khalil Click here <to listen to the podcast<. |
 
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