Christmas message Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/christmas-message/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 25 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christmas message Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/christmas-message/ 32 32 Pope prays for peace in Africa https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/pope-prays-for-peace-in-africa/ Wed, 25 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/pope-prays-for-peace-in-africa/ Pope Francis has called for the softening of stony and self centre hearts towards people fleeing conflict and to end injustice in the world He has also prayed for and end to wars in Africa.   There was a heavy African flavour to the traditional Christmas message read by Pope Francis. He prayed for migrants […]

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]]> Pope Francis has called for the softening of stony and self centre hearts towards people fleeing conflict and to end injustice in the world

He has also prayed for and end to wars in Africa.

 

There was a heavy African flavour to the traditional Christmas message read by Pope Francis.

He prayed for migrants seeking refuge from violence and better lives for their families, and urged the United Nations to take more muscular actions to deal with their plight.

And he prayed for peace in Burkina Faso where a Christmas Eve attack by jihadis has left 35 people – many of them women – dead.

He also prayed for South Sudan, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger and Nigeria.

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