More than 1 million people attended Pope Francis’ Mass in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Vatican Press Office says
More than one million people attended Pope Francis’ Mass in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday, the Vatican Press Office said, citing figures estimated by local authorities. Francis’ trip to the DRC – the first papal visit since 1985 – comes at a time the African nation is beset by armed fighting and a worsening refugee crisis.
’” “We Christians are called to cooperate with everyone, to break the cycle of violence, to dismantle the machinations of hatred,” the Pope said. Francis said the population was suffering from “wounds that ache, continually infected by hatred and violence, while the medicine of justice and the balm of hope never seem to arrive,” according to Reuters. Decades of militia violence have taken grip of the DRC, as state forces struggle to curb rebel groups.
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