A letter from Belgian Congo missionarias is published at Brussels, stating that 325 missionaries and 130 nuns are devoting themselves to the Congo, where the numb&r of Christians now amounts to 35,270, and that of catechumens to 74,00 C. The missionaries regret the death of King Leopold, stating that the judgment of history will bear witness to what he did for the colonisation of Central Afrioa, notwithstanding the envious calumnies now circulated.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 18
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