Southern African Catholic Bishops’ expressed concerns that the continuous fighting in South Sudan has saddened their Conference.
The Conference ‘is saddened most by unnecessary death of innocent people, displacement and general disruption of normal life’, says Archbishop Stephen Brislin, President of the Conference in a letter of solidarity.
‘It is disheartening to hear that there are people born in war, grew up, married and gave birth to children during war in South Sudan’, he adds.
The Conference consoles South Sudanese that the Southern African Catholic Bishops and people are with you in this difficult moment, says the Catholic prelate.
Archbishop Brislin also comforts people of South Sudan that there is hope for peace in the future by quoting an African proverb saying ‘the darkest hour is the movement just before dawn’.