The Catholic Archbishop of Juba said St Daniel Comboni’s plan for the regeneration of Africa opened the eyes of South Sudanese culminating into the independence of the young country.
Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro in his homily while presiding over Eucharistic celebration at St Comboni House in Juba on Friday, said the founder was a prophet and father of the Mission in South Sudan and that his Missionaries were expelled because they were opening the eyes of South Sudanese.
He said without Comboni Mission in South Sudan, the people of the young country would still be part of the Sudan.
Archbishop Lukudu encouraged Comboni and other Missionaries in South Sudan and Sudan to persist and do their best as St Daniel did when other Missions closed in Sudan because many priests died due to diseases.
He described St Daniel as a person of vocation and that it was why his plan lives for 150 years and beyond.
Fr Pacifico Salvatore who lectured on the 150 years plan of St Daniel Comboni for the regeneration of Africa by Africans, said the continent contributes 80 percent of Comboni Missionaries which became ‘save the world with Africa’.
He added that the number of Comboni Missionaries all over the world is increasing every year.
Fr Salvatore recounted achievements including building Institutions and integral formation of people in the plan of St Comboni even after the founding father died in 1881 in Khartoum, Sudan.
He quoted St Comboni as telling people around him before he died that ‘courage for the mission, but more especially for the future’