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Pope Francis wound up a peace mission to South Sudan on Sunday urging the people to make themselves immune to the “venom of hatred” to achieve the peace and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts.
On his first papal visit to war-torn South Sudan, Francis has urged clergy to raise their voices against injustice. He also met children displaced by conflict and pleaded for women and girls to be honoured.
Pope Francis on Saturday urged South Sudan’s leaders to restore “dignity” to the millions of their countrymen affected by conflict, renewing a forceful appeal for peace in the strife-torn nation.
Watch as Pope Francis visited people displaced by civil conflicts on the first full day of his visit to South Sudan.
Burkina Faso’s military leader said Friday his country had not severed diplomatic ties with France, which he has asked to withdraw its forces, and denied Russian Wagner mercenaries were in the country.
Pontiff says on peace mission that religious leaders ‘cannot remain neutral’ amid abuses of powerPope Francis has said churches in South Sudan “cannot remain neutral” but must raise their voices against injustice and abuse of power, as he and two other…
Bilal al-Sudani’s financing of the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. troops in 2021 elevated him on U.S. kill-or-capture lists.
Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s junta leader, said his country has not severed diplomatic ties with France, despite asking it to withdraw its forces, and denied Russian Wagner mercenaries were in the country.
Video cartoons circulating on social media have shed light on a Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sapping France’s influence among its African allies, analysts say.
The Pope is on a “pilgrimage of peace” to shine global attention on protracted conflicts in the two countries.