Ouagadougou, 19 November, 2019 / 11:59 pm (ACI Africa).
An African Church leader charged with the responsibility of coordinating devotion to the Divine Mercy in Africa has identified the prayerful search for peace on the continent as the agenda driving the weeklong fourth Congress on Divine Mercy officially launched in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou under the theme, “Divine Mercy a grace for our time.”
“The theme of the congress is significant, we should put all hands on deck to promote peace, to promote love, to promote justice so that peace may flow. The mercy of God is the only thing that can bring us this (peace),” Bishop Martin Igwe Uzuokwu of Minna diocese Nigeria, told ACI Africa on the sidelines of event of the official opening of Divine Mercy Congress Tuesday, November 19.
“Where there is peace, there will be progress,” the Prelate who coordinates Divine Mercy in Africa and Madagascar said and continued, “so, we train our people to promote Divine Mercy that will promote peace and justice to the people and peace will promote harmony and harmony will promote goodness and all of us will leave together as brothers and sisters.”
Outlining some of the ways the Divine Mercy is being encouraged to promote peace on the continent, the Nigerian Bishop said, “We have divine mercy academy in Nigeria where we train people to know that peace is the way, so we move around conscientizing our people.”
“I have established two Congregations, one for males, another for females in the diocese of Minna in Nigeria so that they can now go out to preach mercy,” Bishop Uzuokwu disclosed.
