Preparations are underway in Sudan for Sunday's referendum that could split Africa's
largest country in two.South Sudan will have a chance to vote on whether it becomes
independent from the North, as part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended a two-decades-long
civil war. More than four million people have registered to vote, most in the South. There
are some fears about transparency and the possibility of voter intimidation or violence. Cardinal
Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace spoke to
Vatican Radio about what the church is doing to ensure a peaceful outcome saying,
"the Catholic Church is all of us, although institutionally the position of the Catholic
church is always that which is expressed by the Holy See , that being the leadership..." The
Cardinal adds that, "So we can recognise this referendum as a part of a process not
only of the world out there but the world with the church to see definitive peace
reign in Sudan". Listen