Moxico Catholic Church school complex assaulted

According to the nun Marcelina, quoted by Catholic radio, the suspects broke into one of the back doors of the school institution and took three new computers, an image projector and a new sound system.
"He went in from behind, opened the cabinet where he had three new computers, a projector and a music player, and they took it away," said the nun.

The official, who laments the "constant robberies" that have taken place at the institution since 2020, said that the fact has already been reported to the police authorities and hopes that they find the perpetrators and "return a feeling of security" to the Alto Luena district.

The Catholic Church once again denounced, on December 20, 2021, the drama of violent attacks" to its institutions, in the last three months of 2020, lamenting the "lack of response" by the police authorities which, in its opinion, "encourages the robbers".

The concern was expressed by the archbishop of Luanda, Filomeno Vieira Dias, when he denounced two robberies that took place in two Catholic institutions in the province of Malanje, where the nuns were attacked.

The bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST) expressed concern, on 7 October, with the "high level of crime and insecurity" in the country, which last year affected more than 60 institutions of the Catholic Church.

The police record a shortage of human and technical resources to respond to public security concerns in the country's 18 provinces, as acknowledged, in December 2021, by the general commander of the Angolan National Police (PNA), Paulo de Almeida.

The PNA commissioner-general, who was speaking during a meeting with journalists in Luanda, informed that the corporation currently has around 100,000 staff, a number that he hopes to double by 2025 to respond to the demand of the 30 million inhabitants.