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Despite serious challenges, African electorates, often energized by their youth cohort, vie to have their voices heard and shape a more democratic, stable, and prosperous future.

This is said to be the second largest Mass Pope Francis has held, after one in the Philippines in 2015.

Pope Francis visited his flock in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an intimate mass that gave the opportunity for victims of war crimes to tell their harrowing stories.

A Million Gather To Hear Pope’s Mass In DR Congo

Francis began the second day of his visit to the continent with a direct appeal to the warring groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo to put down their weapons and forgive one another.

On his trip to Congo, Pope Francis has heard firsthand accounts of atrocities some people have endured during years of fighting in the eastern part of the country. A young woman told him she was “raped like an animal” for months. A young man watched as his father was decapitated. A former sex slave told Francis her captors forced her into cannibalism. Francis sat in silence as victim after victim come forward to tell their stories, and he urged them to use their pain to sow peace and reconci...

Pope Francis visited his flock in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an intimate mass that gave victims of war crimes the opportunity to share their

The head of the Catholic Church aims to help restore peace in two countries that have seen years of violence.

The Central African country is wracked by war, poverty and environmental plunder — and it may be the future of the Catholic Church.

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