Pope Francis says he intends to visit South Sudan in the coming year and calls on the country's politicians to salvage a tenuous peace deal. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the country's civil war that began in 2013.
Pope Francis delivers his message during his Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019.
In public remarks from a Vatican palace window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Francis also urged South Sudan’s leaders to find “consensus” for the good of the country, where hundreds of thousands of people died in a civil war several years ago. “I direct special thoughts to the dear people of South Sudan, which I must visit this year,” Francis said. He didn’t give details of his travel plans, but the Vatican indicated that by “this year” he meant the upcoming year, 2020.Francis referred to a visit by the two leaders at the Vatican this year, when, in a dramatic gesture of humility, he got down on his knees and kissed their feet to entreat them to preserve peace.
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