![]() The pope will fly from Juba to Rome together with the archbishop of Canterbury and the moderator of the church in Scotland on a six-hour flight, where he will give an in-flight press conference to journalists. The Mass concluded Pope Francis’ three-day trip to South Sudan. ![]() We won't rent or sell your information, and you can unsubscribe at any time. When you subscribe to the CNA UPDATE, we'll send you a daily email with links to the news you need and, occasionally, breaking news.Īs part of this free service you may receive occasional offers from us at EWTN News and EWTN. We provide news about the Church and the world, as seen through the teachings of the Catholic Church. Elias Turk/EWTNĪt Catholic News Agency, our team is committed to reporting the truth with courage, integrity, and fidelity to our faith. People attending Pope Francis' Mass in Juba on Feb. “Hope is the word I would leave with each of you, as a gift to share, a seed to bear fruit,” he said. Josephine Bakhita, whom he called “a great woman who by God’s grace transformed into hope all the sufferings that she endured.” ![]() Pope Francis also recalled the testimony of Sudan’s St. “We pray to her now, and we entrust to her the cause of peace in South Sudan and in the entire African continent, where so many of our brothers and sisters in the faith experience persecution and danger, where great numbers of people suffer from conflict, exploitation, and poverty,” he said. In his Angelus message, he entrusted South Sudan’s peace process to Our Lady of Africa, reminding the crowd that the Virgin Mary is the Queen of Peace. Pope Francis spent a moment in prayer before a statue of Our Lady of Africa. Pope Francis spent a moment in prayer before a large statue of Our Lady of Africa located beside the altar at the end of the Mass. Elias Turk/EWTNĪnglicans in Africa reject archbishop of Canterbury for supporting same-sex union blessings Read article During the Mass, dancers wearing bright yellow sashes adorned with a large photo of Pope Francis and photos of other clergy danced in the field below the altar. “This country, so beautiful yet ravaged by violence, needs the light that each one of you has, or better, the light that each one of you is,” he said. Pope Francis underlined that South Sudan’s Christians are called to be “light that shines in the darkness” by living out the Beatitudes. And while the country reached a formal peace agreement nearly three years ago, violent conflicts continue in parts of the country. South Sudan’s civil war resulted in the deaths of an estimated 400,000 people. More than 100,000 people attended the papal Mass in Juba held on the grounds of a mausoleum commemorating John Garang, a liberation leader known as the “father of South Sudan,” though he died in a helicopter crash before the newest African country gained its independence in 2011 and plunged into a brutal civil war two years later.
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