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Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are engaging citizens of the Central African nation to accord the Holy Father “a welcome worthy of his rank” during his Apostolic visit early next year.
The postponed ecumenical trip to South Sudan that is to be undertaken by Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Iain Greenshields, is among the deliberations at the ongoing Plenary Assembly of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC), a member of the Conference has said.
The representative of the Holy Father in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has said the planned Papal visit is for everyone in the Central African nation, and not just for Catholics.
The number of refugees arriving in Uganda from neighboring South Sudan has risen in the past weeks, a Catholic Priest ministering in Uganda’s Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu has said, and exuded confidence that the planned Papal visit to the East-Central African country will ignite hope in the displaced people.
Catholic Bishops in Sudan and South Sudan have launched the logo and the motto of the visit of Pope Francis to the world’s youngest country early July, saying the two are a call for peace in the East-Central African nation.
Officials of the Holy See Press have unveiled the logo and motto of Pope Francis’ Apostolic visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in July.