Pope urges end to ethnic hatred at open-air mass in South Sudan

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Pope Francis appealed Sunday to the people of South Sudan to lay down their “weapons of hatred” at an open-air mass on the final day of his pilgrimage to a country blighted by violence and poverty.

JUBA, South Sudan –

He voiced hope that the people of South Sudan, a country that has been at war for about half its young life, would “build a reconciled future”. Despite the initial revelry in 2011, South Sudan was at war with itself just two years later in a conflict that killed nearly 400,000 people and displaced four million.

On Saturday, Francis met victims of the civil war, who were brought to Juba from various camps, and urged the government to resume the peace process and restore “dignity” to those affected by conflict.

 

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