Pope appeals for peace at South Sudan mass

Pope Francis made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan on Sunday as he celebrated Mass before tens of thousands of people to close out an unusual mission by Christian religious leaders to nudge forward the country’s recovery from civil war.

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In historic South Sudan visit, Pope raises a ‘sense of community, dialogue and reconciliation’

Pope Francis flew home Sunday with the leaders of the Anglican and Scottish churches after a joint trip to violence-plagued South Sudan, where he appealed at a final mass for people to lay down their “weapons of hatred”. Large crowds of ecstatic worshi…

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