‘It is time to repent our sins, renew lives and ask for forgiveness from God’, a priest in Yei Diocese tells the faithful as the Catholic Church starts forty days of fasting.
Fr Emmanuel Lodongo Sebit in a sermon says Lent season should be a time for South Sudanese to change from bad attitudes and doings, Radio Easter reports.
Thousands of Christians turned up for the mass on Ash Wednesday in Yei.
During the mass at Christ the King Cathedral, ashes were put on the foreheads of worshippers as a sign of accepting sins and seeking God’s love and mercy.
Christians in other parishes and chapels also prayed.