The Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Juba Paulino Lokudu Loro has urged the people of South Sudan to drop their ethnic differences and work together to understand each other.
“Let us think of togetherness, let us talk about unity, I think what went wrong with us was because of lack of unity among us the 64, 65 tribes did not succeed to come together and understand themselves,” the bishop said during his homily on Sunday at St. Theresa Cathedral Kator.
He said the church in South Sudan has seen that the people of the new country have not identified their source of unity. Each one from all the 64 tribes in South Sudan come from God and have to find the source of their togetherness, according to the bishop.
“It is there that we find the source of our togetherness as 65 people, it is there for the source of our unity and togetherness,” he said.
Lokudu urged the people of the country to understand that their tribes are good. “Nobody of us created the tribes. The tribes come from God. The people who are there come from God. Therefore there is completely no foundation for us to hate ourselves because of the tribes. There is no foundation for hatred in the church, in the word of God on the tribal basis,” he said.
The bishop also urged the leaders of South Sudan to stop their bad politics and engage in uniting the citizens.