Former South Sudan government official urges elders to preach peace

A former government official in South Sudan’s  Gbudue State says that he is convinced that lasting peace can return and prevail in Yambio and Gbudue State and the entire country if elderly people talk to their sons not to take up arms against their own fellow citizens.

Hussein Enoka Ibrahim, the former Commissioner of Yambio County, said that a combination of prayer and elderly people speaking to their sons about peace would go a long way in bringing back peace to the troubled nation.

The former Commissioner told Catholic Radio Anisa that he deeply regrets the current situation in Gbudue State where sons and daughters were causing trouble for their own people.

Enoka Ibrahim urged the youth of South Sudan to work for God and cultivate respect for their elders.  He was speaking after attending the Feast of the Holy Family Mass at St. John Bosco Akorogbodi II.

Usually, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family on the last Sunday of the year which falls between Christmas and the New Year. Since in 2016, there was no Sunday that occurred between 25 December and 1 January, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph was celebrated on Friday, 30 December.

(Catholic Radio Network/Vatican Radio)

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