Christians are called on to break the
cycle of violence in Africa and elsewhere, Pope Francis told a
Mass in Kinshasa attended by over a million faithful on the
second day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Christians are called to be "missionaries of peace", he said at
in the Mass at the airport of Ndolo.
"It is a choice: it is to make room in our hearts for everyone,
it is to believe that ethnic, regional, social and religious
differences come later and are not obstacles; that others are
brothers and sisters, members of the same human community; that
everyone is a recipient of the peace brought to the world by
Jesus.
"It is to believe that we Christians are called to collaborate
with everyone, to break the cycle of violence, to dismantle the
plots of hatred.
"Yes, Christians, sent by Christ, are called by definition to be
the conscience of peace in the world".
Francis is set to meet victims of years of conflict in the DRC
at the nunciature later Wednesday.
He will also meet long-time violence sufferers on the second
stage of his African trip, to South Sudan, later this week.
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