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Catholic bishops in South Sudan are urging the government to arrest and bring to justice the attackers who killed civilians on the eve of the historic visit of the Pope and two other top clerics.
Suspected cattle herders from Jonglei state killed at least 21 civilians in Kajo-Keji County in Central Equatorial state on Thursday last week.
The next day Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland Iain Greenshields began a joint ecumenical peace pilgrimage to South Sudan.
The death toll from the Kajo-Keji incident has risen to 27 with “countless numbers” injured, according to the UN peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan. End.