introhours before the announcement of the result of the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo tension is still mountingboth joseph kabila's camp and opposition leader etienne tshisekedi are convinced they have wonon sunday the catholic church said it was concerned by the situationpkgMore than usual this Sunday, churchgoers sang and prayed for peaceTensions are running high before the announcement of the result of the presidential electionThe two main camps are certain they’ve wonOn election day The Congolese catholic church sent out thousands of observers and had said it would announce voting trendsIt has now changed its mine Mgr Nicolas Djomo, président de la Conférence épiscopale nationale du CongoWe call on political leaders to put the brakes on this train that is going straight towards a wall. We are worried. There are reasons to be worried. We call on people to be responsible. But we don’t want to get involved in the political debateThe opposition is now united and rejects the partial results proclaimed by the electoral commissionOne of its leaders was clearly disappointed by the church’s positionAlbert Moleka, Opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi's chief of staffWhen a priest says i cannot choose between left and right, that’s fatalistA priest has to get involved but here I have the impression that they didn’t want to get their hands dirtyBut president joseph kabila’s camp welcomed the church’s stanceChérubin Okende, Spokesperson for the coalition backing Joseph Kabila« the church has to be in the middle of the village, it also has to alert the country when there is a danger threatening the nation, and obviously with the hate messages going around that is a direction we shouldn’t go in, so the church accomplished its dutyIn all the catholic church deployed 30000 observers for this election, it was by far the biggest delegationDespite these figures it preferred to stay away from the current controversy surrounding the election commission’s partial results report by Nicolas Germain and Johan Bodin[[SUR-TITLE]][[TITLE]][[INTRO]][[AUTHOR]]