(8 May 2025)
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Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – 7 May 2025
1. Various of Cardinal Ambongo supporters attentively watching TV
2. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Patience Mudinda, resident of Kinshasa:
“I see how the Catholic prelates are in their conclave, and I wish Cardinal (Fridolin) Ambongo good luck in his election because he’s Congolese like me. If he’s elected, I’ll be overwhelmed with joy because he’s one of us.”
3. Cardinal Ambongo supporters gathered in room
4. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Moïse Tshimanga, son of Patience Mudinda:
"This time we want a Black man to be pope, so that we as Black people are very happy, we want to see a Black-skinned pope."
5. Various of Parish Cathedral Notre Dame du Congo
6. Close of poster highlighting Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo’s influence in Kinshasa
7. Wide of banner featuring Cardinal Ambongo and Pope Francis promoting the Jubilee 2025 celebration in Kinshasa
8. Mid of Abbot Marcel Ndjondjo walking down steps
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Abbot Marcel Ndjondjo:
“We’re now in a climate that we know, highly spiritual for the Church, (so) the people of God must pray that the spirit guides them (the cardinals), that the spirit guides our cardinal fathers so that they give to Rome its bishop and the to universal church, its shepherd.”
10. Various of church, tower with cross
STORYLINE:
Viewers in the Democratic Republic of Congo gathered around their TV in Kinshasa to cheer for the possibility of an African pope.
Patience Mudinda and her family were watching television in their small living room as the television showed the beginning of the process of electing a new pope.
This modest Congolese Catholic family has only one name in mind: their compatriot, 65-year-old Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu.
Everyone here wants Cardinal Ambongo to be the future pope.
Mudinda says she will be "overwhelmed with joy" if Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo is elected.
Meanwhile, Mudinda’s son concentrates on watching the news on television.
In Kinshasa, those close to Cardinal Ambongo are more measured in their comments on this Vatican election, hoping that the religious spirit will prevail over all other considerations in the choice of the future Pope, said Abbot Marcel Ndjondjo, a close colleague of the cardinal Ambongo.
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