S. Sudan: Dozens of religious leaders wounded during a fistfight at a church
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March 11th 2020 (SSNN) – Dozens of South Sudan religious leaders have been wounded after a fistfight at a church in the capital Juba, clerics said on Tuesday.
“Many peopole have been wounded in the fistfight,” a church leader told this website from Juba on Tuesday. “Some of them are being treated at the Juba Teaching Hospital and some with light wounds have gone home.”
Meanwhile the archbishop emeritus of Catholic diocese of Juba, Paulino Lukudu, has called for calm and restraint from violence and hostility.
This come after some youth along with other church leaders beat up rival priests and locked the St. Theresa’s Cathedral Church on Sunday.
The group from the Archdiocese of Juba protested the appointment of Stephen Ameyu Martin in a letter to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on December 12.
The Vatican had announced the resignation of Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro, and the appointment of Bishop Ameyu the same date.
Until his appointment, Bishop Ameyu was the bishop of Torit Diocese, having served in that position since early this year.
The defiant group said they had written to the Congregation asking for dialogue over allegations raised against Bishop Ameyu, but the Vatican “ignored the concerns of the majority people of the Archdiocese.”
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