{"id":11766,"date":"2023-01-30T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=11766"},"modified":"2023-01-29T19:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:53:04","slug":"king-sends-peace-message-ahead-of-popes-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/king-sends-peace-message-ahead-of-popes-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"King sends peace message ahead of Pope&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Jackson Gaaniko<\/strong><br>His Majesty Atoroba Peni, King of the Azande in Western Equatoria State has sent his message of peace to the faithful in South Sudan, a head of Pope&#8217;s visit to the country.<br><br>King Atoroba Peni Rikito in a press release, is urging the&nbsp;People of South Sudan to embrace peace and have the spirit of reconciliation and forgiveness as they prepare to receive His Holiness Pope Francis.<br><br>\u201cI am calling upon people to Embrace the values of moderation, to fulfil the impression of knowing one another and to raise awareness of togetherness\u201d King Atoroba stressed.<br><br>\u201cThis year is the year of&nbsp;blessings, all what we can do as faithful and followers of God is to embrace the spirit of Reconciliation and Forgiveness in South Sudan\u201d His Majesty added.<br><br>Pope Francis is expected to visit South Sudan early next month before proceeding to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<br><br>Earlier this week, the Vatican &#8216;Technical Advanced Team&#8217; landed in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to assess the preparation for the Papal visit which is expected to take place from February 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<br><br>His Majesty Atoroba Peni made his statement during a press release&nbsp;in the palace last Friday (on 27-1-2023) in Yambio Western Equatorial state.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jackson GaanikoHis Majesty Atoroba Peni, King of the Azande in Western Equatoria State has sent his message of peace to the faithful in South Sudan, a head of Pope&#8217;s visit to the country. King Atoroba Peni Rikito in a press release, is urging the&nbsp;People of South Sudan to embrace<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/king-sends-peace-message-ahead-of-popes-visit\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/His-Majesty-Atoroba-Peni-Rikito-King-of-the-Azande-\u2013-Photo-by-Jackson-Gaaniko.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}