Democratic Republic of the Congo–Holy See relations election. Democratic Republic of the Congo–Holy See relations Democratic Republic of the Congo–Holy See relations refers to the current relationship between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Holy See. The two states have seen an increase in their cooperation in recent years, and due to the large number of Roman Catholics in the DRC, President Joseph Kabila has made an effort to maintain good relations with the Vatican. The DRC maintains an embassy near Vatican City while the Holy See has an apostolic nunciature in Kinshasa. The current Congolese ambassador in the Vatican is Jean-Pierre Hamuli Mupenda (since
Multilateral foreign policy of the Holy See the various faith traditions." At the same time, the Holy See has condemned religious fanaticism and violence as a prevention of the freedom of religion, as well as "every form of hostility to religion that would restrict the public role of believers in civil and political life." Faced with a coordinated effort to incorporate "sexual and reproductive rights" within the body of the international recognized human rights, the Holy See has become the major advocate at the international level of traditional sexual mores and marriage. At the various international conferences, the Holy See argued that the traditional family, based on