Nairobi, 31 January, 2024 / 9:55 pm (ACI Africa).
The people of God in South are set to commemorate one year since the first-ever Papal visit to the country with the pastoral trip of the Prefect for the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD), Michael Cardinal Czerny.
In a Wednesday, January 31 message announcing Cardinal Czerny’s pastoral trip to the world’s newest nation, the DPIHD highlights places he will visit and the related activities during the eight-day trip that is set to kick off Friday, February 2, the World Day for the Consecrated Life.
The Vatican-based Cardinal is set to visit South Sudan’s only Metropolitan See, Juba, and one of the six suffragan Dioceses, Malakal.
In Juba, Cardinal Czerny is scheduled to preside over Holy Mass at St. Theresa’s Cathedral of Juba Archdiocese on Sunday, February 4, the venue of Pope Francis’ 4 February 2023 meeting with members of the Clergy, women and men Religious, and Seminarians during his three-day visit to South Sudan.
The Czechian-born member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), who founded and directed the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2002 to 2010 is also scheduled to visit Renk, one of the entry points for those fleeing violence in Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum.