A large majority of women and men religious taking part in a workshop on religious life in South Sudan voted for the establishment of an association to foster their spiritual growth.
Br Bruno Dada, the general superior of the St Martin de Porres Brothers, and Fr Daniel Moschetti, the provincial of the Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan, presented the motion.The association should have one representative from every religious congregation and society of apostolic life present in the seven dioceses of South Sudan.
The consecrated people voiced also the need to establish a centre of spirituality either in Juba or in Wau for retreats, conferences and other formation activities.
The participants wrote a letter to national interior minister Alison Manani Magaya asking for a special visa regime for expat missionaries working in the country.
Currently each missionary from outside East Africa spends 500 US dollars per year in visas to work in South Sudan.
About 70 women and men religious from 30 different congregations concluded yesterday evening a three-day workshop on Prophetic Challenges of the African Synod to Consecrated Life in South Sudan.