Nampula, 21 May, 2024 / 8:31 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Inácio Saúre of Mozambique’s Catholic Archdiocese Nampula has condemned violence due to religious differences, and termed it “shameful”.
In his Sunday, May 19 homily at Immaculate Heart of Mary Anchilo Parish of his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Saúre advocated for peaceful coexistence among people of different faith practices.
“It's shameful that people kill each other because of their faith in God,” he said, and appealed, “We must work for the unity of the Son of God, regardless of the differences between religions.”
To illustrate religious intolerance, the Mozambican Catholic Archbishop recounted episodes of people, who have been murdered for being identified as members of a particular religion by their names and condemned such practices as constituting a “very serious sin”.
“You can't hate anyone because they are of another religion,” the Mozambican-born member of the Institute of Consolata Missionaries (IMC), who started his Episcopal Ministry in May 2011 as Bishop of Mozambique’s Tete Diocese emphasized.
