“"A partisan spirit that stubbornly promotes one's own ethnic group or particular interests, thus nurturing spirals of hatred and violence, is detrimental to everyone, since it blocks the necessary 'chemistry of the whole'," insisted Francis upon his arrival in Kinshasa on Jan. 31.”
“Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, has taken words of peace and hope to the people of South Sudan on behalf of Pope Francis who was prohibited from making a July 5-7 visit to the war-scarred country because of a knee problem.”
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Pope Francis at bedside of forgotten wars during Africa trip
Cardinal Parolin goes to South Sudan, meets president
