Week of Christian Unity Important for Healing Africa's War Torn Nations
(21 Jan 09-RV) The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is continuing, with this year’s
theme, “that they may become one in God’s hand”, drawn from the Book of Ezekiel. The
week is organized by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the
World Council of Churches and is aimed at promoting dialogue and healing divisions. One
organisation that is marking this week is Catholic relief agency, Caritas Internationalis.
We spoke to Fr Pierre Cibambo, Liason officer for Africa and who is originally from
DR Congo about how the aims of this week can be applied to this nation in the heart
of Africa which is striving to recover from a lengthy civil war...