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Eugene

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Sun Jan 29, 2023, 09:14 AM Jan 2023

Pope and Justin Welby to visit South Sudan amid tensions over LGBTQ+ rights

Source: The Guardian

Pope and Justin Welby to visit South Sudan amid tensions over LGBTQ+ rights

Head of Anglican church in South Sudan said archbishop of Canterbury was ‘failing to defend biblical truth’

Harriet Sherwood
@harrietsherwood
Sun 29 Jan 2023 06.00 GMT
Last modified on Sun 29 Jan 2023 06.01 GMT

Pope Francis and the archbishop of Canterbury will begin a historic joint visit to South Sudan on Friday against the backdrop of potential tensions over LGBTQ+ rights.

The leaders of the global Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, whose numbers are growing in sub-Saharan Africa in contrast to the west, will be joined on their “pilgrimage of peace” by the leader of the Church of Scotland.

Pope Francis, Justin Welby and Iain Greenshields will meet President Salva Kiir, bishops and clergy, and people displaced by conflict in the area.

Before the visit, Francis and Welby have risked angering local political and church leaders with statements about same-sex relationships that contrast with deeply conservative views that predominate in South Sudan.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/29/pope-and-justin-welby-to-visit-south-sudan-amid-tensions-over-lgbtq-rights

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Pope and Justin Welby to visit South Sudan amid tensions over LGBTQ+ rights (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2023 OP
Will the Pope's words edhopper Jan 2023 #1

edhopper

(36,555 posts)
1. Will the Pope's words
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 12:58 PM
Jan 2023

mean anything to the Priests there who condone the brutal slaying of Gay people?

I have my doubts.

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