{"id":41982,"date":"2023-08-15T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls"},"modified":"2023-08-15T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:24:07","slug":"vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls","title":{"rendered":"Vatican official calls for peace, reconciliation ahead of polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mamer Abraham<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, urged the South Sudanese to embrace peace and reconciliation across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric made the peace call at his meeting with President Salva Kiir in his office yesterday, where he delivered the \u201cmessage of goodwill\u201d from Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParolin called on the people of South Sudan to embrace the spirit of peace and reconciliation in order to build a harmonious society in the country,\u201d read the press release shared by the office of the president yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Acting minister for foreign affairs and international cooperation, Deng Dau Deng told the presidential press that the meeting revolved around the implementation of the peace agreement and the preparations for general elections on December 20, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Presidential Press Unit (PPU), Cardinal Parolin will conduct a mass with the internally displaced persons in Malakal and the returnees who escaped the conflict in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>He will then wind up his three-day visit with a trip to Rumbek Diocese in Lakes State before his return to Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4, 2022, Parolin visited Juba to prepare the way for the ecumenical visit of Pope Francis to Juba.<\/p>\n<p>He was received by the senior presidential advisor, Kuol Manyang Juuk, the minister for defense, Angelina Teny and the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Juba, Stephen Ameyu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish you a good stay in Juba, and in South Sudan, and this is when you will be seeing there is peace in South Sudan, peace is coming,\u201d Kuol said.<\/p>\n<p>The current peace agreement that saw an end to the conflict that led to massive deaths and displacements is accredited to the Vatican as the result of the Holy Kiss made to President Salva Kiir and the First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar to break the bondage of conflict to open the wide path of peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The City Review South Sudan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamer Abraham Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, urged the South Sudanese to embrace peace and reconciliation across the country. The cleric made the peace call at his meeting with President Salva Kiir in his office yesterday, where he delivered the \u201cmessage of goodwill\u201d from Pope Francis. \u201cParolin called on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,3299,233,2762,4282],"class_list":["post-41982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-pietro-parolin","tag-south-sudan","tag-vatican","tag-vatican-secretary-of-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vatican official calls for peace, reconciliation ahead of polls - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, urged the South Sudanese to embrace peace and reconciliation across the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vatican official calls for peace, reconciliation ahead of polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, urged the South Sudanese to embrace peace and reconciliation across the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-15T13:39:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-15T15:24:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/sm_1692099809.342824.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Vatican official calls for peace, reconciliation ahead of polls\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-15T13:39:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-15T15:24:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls\"},\"wordCount\":332,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/sm_1692099809.342824.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"Pietro Parolin\",\"South-Sudan\",\"Vatican\",\"Vatican Secretary of State\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/vatican-official-calls-for-peace-reconciliation-ahead-of-polls\",\"name\":\"Vatican official calls for peace, reconciliation ahead of polls - 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