Caxito, 26 April, 2024 / 8:05 pm (ACI Africa).
The Southern African nation of Angola has leaders, who are not keen on providing services to the citizens, Bishop Maurício Agostinho Camuto of the country’s Catholic Diocese of Caxito has noted with concern.
In his homily on the annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2024 marked on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Bishop Camuto faulted Angola’s political leaders for remaining indifferent to the plight of the ordinary citizens.
“It's impossible to believe that we have leaders who have no heart, no soul, because they don't suffer with the people, they don't feel the suffering of the people,” he said during the Eucharistic celebration at Good Shepherd Kikolo Parish of his Episcopal See.
The Local Ordinary of Caxito Diocese further lamented, “It's a shame that our leaders don’t see that our people lack roads, food, water and other basic social amenities for their welfare.”
“You can only be a leader if you feel what the people feel,” the Angolan member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Holy Ghost Fathers/Spiritans) said, and emphasized, “Those who don't feel the suffering of the people are not fit to be leaders.”
