Maputo, 08 January, 2025 / 4:46 pm (ACI Africa).
Mozambique’s Catholic Bishops have recognized with appreciation the solidarity of their counterparts in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe following the latter’s three-day Prayer initiative for peace in the Southern African nation.
In a statement shared with ACI Africa on Wednesday, January 8, members of the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (CEM) say the spiritual solidarity, which was dubbed Triduum Prayer Initiatives that the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST) organized is a source of hope and a testament of “unity and communion”.
“Your message dated December 31, 2024, in which you express your solidarity with the Mozambican people and the Catholic Church in Mozambique, once again tested by the pain and anguish caused by widespread violence that threatens peace, encourages us and gives us hope at a time when the post-election crisis is worsening,” CEM members say, referring to the effects of the violence related to the October 9 presidential election.
Mozambique’s Catholic Bishops share their “deep gratitude” to CEAST and the people of God in the two countries, saying the spiritual solidarity “bears witness to the unity and communion of the children of the same Church who, through their prayers and supplications to God.”
In taking time to pray for peace amid violent conflicts, the people of God in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe “make their own the joys and hopes, the sorrows and anxieties of people today, especially the poor and all those who suffer,” CEM members says.
