Parish Priest Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral Reverend Kamilo Afore in the Catholic Diocese of Torit or CDOT on Saturday asked the people of South Sudan to use radio for sending out the word of God to the needy.
The call came during Bishop Stephen Ameyu’s visit to Radio Emmanuel, Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Theresa Primary School, St Mary Minor Seminary, Bishop Akio Memorial College, and Sts Peter and Paul cemetery among others.
Fr Afore told citizens to use the few available radio stations to preach peace and togetherness among people.
He added that radio brings together to share discuss issues of community concerns that benefit its citizens.
‘Surely radio is a tool, a tool for evangelization and a tool that also brings people together and am happy that the radio is within our own cathedral parish we use it regularly and I thank Bishop for making use of this institution and of being supportive to it and we welcome you and I thank the Radio Emmanuel crew for this opportunity and I appeal to my people the radio is within your vicinity make use of it and turn up for programs that can be beneficial for us all’, Fr Afore pleaded.
While Father Santino Lounoi, director of Radio Emmanuel says promoting evangelization and reach out information to marginalize groups is their core mandate.
‘As a catholic station our one mandate is to promote evangelization because evangelization is very because a radio station is a medium or a tool that is you know that does not discriminate, it doesn’t discriminate just like the just it doesn’t discriminate who is educated and who is not educated it can broadcast to anybody, in their language because it can promote broadcast in different language, so it a tool that can reach the marginalize people because for radio you can speak to people everywhere’, he said.
Meanwhile the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Torit Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla encouraged the local community to listen to radio to know their social and spiritual development.
He cautioned citizens against the use of radio as a means of hatred, calling on them to solve their grievances in a biblical manner.
‘I hope that all our people will listen, will have at least a capacity to listen to this radio as a source of their evangelization and as a source also of encouragement for them and so in this way the mission of God will continue we know that there are a lot of difficulties in communication because sometimes our message is not listen to properly when people are having grudges against a radio they think that this is a radio for this and for that, a radio should be for all as a means of communicating the message of God but also communicating our social problems and also as a means of solving our problems’, the Bishop said.
Before his visits to Radio Emmanuel Bishop Stephen Martin Mulla in his pastoral tour paid tribute to the late Bishop Johnson Akio Mutek
The catholic leaders were speaking at Radio Emmanuel compound during a live show on Saturday.