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Pope Francis has just returned from his ecumenical Pilgrimage of Peace to South Sudan, together with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
Of course, I think his coming is like giving to the people what is theirs. Firstly, to give attention to the institutions of South Sudan to call them for peace. But at the same time, the Pope came to see the people that are those that carry the wounds of this terrible situation and the conflict in South Sudan.
In the country there is a common commitment of all the churches, through the South Sudan Council of Churches, and there is communion not only among the Protestant churches, but the Catholic Church has also played a very great role. I believe so. In his magisterium, the Pope has often said that any religion that would promote violence is actually not a true religion. I really believe that religion will help humanity. It will help us to acknowledge all the differences that are among us as a great wealth, a richness that God gave us.I saw you with the students from your diocese who had made a pilgrimage to Juba to see the Pope. You were so free with them, and they were so free with you.
Many youth in this country have been manipulated for reasons of power or different kind of interest, and so I think that many us do come to the church because they see that the church is a house of hope, that we give them a vision and trust them. And so as a church, we have really to invest on the ministry of their youth.Our work in the diocese is built on various pillars.
What really affected us was that in time of conflict, a flood of weapons arrived in the country, and these weapons were distributed to different communities so that they could keep security. But of course, when there are weapons, there is no security. We cannot keep security, because we have weapons.
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