The head of the UN mission in South Sudan, Nicolas Haysom, recently warned that the country was "on the brink of a return to full-scale civil war". Archbishop Horgan said Pope Francis "spoke ...

Pope Francis appealed to South Sudan leaders ... and other bishops said in a March 28 statement. South Sudan descended into a civil war in December 2013 following a political dispute between ...

Pope Francis died peacefully on Easter Monday ... could derail the fragile peace agreement that had ended South Sudan's brutal five-year civil war. The conflict, which began in 2013, had killed ...

But in April 2019, Pope Francis surprised South Sudan and the entire world when he ... that “the use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possession of nuclear weapons ...

Four years later, he traveled to South Sudan and bluntly warned the ... Russia's invasion of Ukraine or the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Pope Francis: he used final Easter address to call for Gaza ...

Pope Francis kisses the feet of South Sudan President Salva Kiir April 11 ... statement saying there was no such thing as a just war and calling everyone to practice nonviolence.

Kissed the feet of South Sudanese leaders In 2019, Pope Francis kissed the feet of South ... uphold peace amidst the country's raging civil war. “I was almost trembling because that thing ...

Let us #PrayTogether for #Peace, especially in martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Pope Francis wrote. Pope Francis, appearing ...

Tensions rose at the start of March, when a militia group allied to Vice-President Riek Machar during South Sudan's civil war clashed with the army. Archbishop Horgan said Pope Francis "spoke ...