By Charles K Mark<\/p>\n
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Faithful and devoted followers of the Catholic doctrine are eager for October 30, 2023; grand home return of South Sudan’s first-ever cardinal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla is one of the 21 bishops named by Pope Francis on July 9, 2023, at a convention for the creation of new Cardinals.<\/p>\n Some faithful can\u2019t wait to receive him back to bless the motherland with the anointing from the Vatican\u2019s head, the Holy Father, Pope Francis.<\/p>\n Sister Renata Severino from the Sisters of Charity in Rajaf East expressed joy, love, and readiness to welcome His Eminence Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla to Juba.<\/p>\n \u201cI was one of the people who participated live there in St. Peter Square to witness the event. It was a feeling that all of us would become one. So I felt it was a time to be united,\u201d Sr. Renata said.<\/p>\n The Reverend Sister believed the elevation of Ameyu to a Cardinal was not only for the bishop but for South Sudan; hence, the welcome should be felt and enjoyed by all.<\/p>\n “We, the South Sudanese who went there to attend the event, were from different denominations; even the Muslim sheik was there with us. So I feel this should be the beginning of unity,\u201d Renata expressed.<\/p>\n The Catholic Nun explains that the perception that South Sudanese are violent and hot-tempered has lately been marred with love and joy exhibited to the world.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it is a big joy for the church as a whole and the Catholic Church in the world\u2014the Christians and Muslims in South Sudan,\u201d the Reverend Sister maintained.<\/p>\n \u201cEven through the ongoing preparations, you can feel and see that people have given up the past for a new page.\u201d She observed.<\/p>\n She added that being a Christian is not just a name but a responsibility to be a witness and to be somebody carrying peace and good news to the people.<\/p>\n \u201cThe good news is that we are now preparing and waiting for our Cardinal to come back to us. The ongoing preparation is for and by the church, not a group of people inside the church,\u201d Renata said.<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to say to those who are still sitting and watching from afar, there is nothing we carry with us but what we expect,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Another clergyman, Mr. Placido Popo Martin, Executive Director of the Catholic charity organization, Caritas Juba, also shared his feelings about the same occasion.<\/p>\n \u201cMy feelings for the country, South Sudan, are that we are so blessed to have it for the first time ever as a nation, and we only have nine or ten years as a nation or eleven years as a nation; it\u2019s a blessing,\u201d he expressed.<\/p>\n Popo said the Cardinalship is part of showing that people are in solidarity with Rome and that Rome is in solidarity with the people of South Sudan.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reception will be a very great one because it involves every member of our communities, especially people from the diocese who are here,\u201d the Caritas director said.<\/p>\n Anticipating a great reception, Popo called for people from all walks of life to join the Catholic Church and the country at large.<\/p>\n \u201cOur invitations should go to our brothers in the other denominations to come because we are all Christians, we believe in one God, and there’s a chance for us to have solidarity together,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n He reiterated that having a seat in the College of the Cardinals in Rome is a much greater blessing and is promising because it gives the country room to put its ranks together and offer peace.<\/p>\n Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, born on January 10, 1964, hails from Torit County, Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan.<\/p>\n He first received priestly ordination on April 21, 1991, as a diocesan priest of the Catholic diocese of Torit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charles K Mark Faithful and devoted followers of the Catholic doctrine are eager for October 30, 2023; grand home return of South Sudan’s first-ever cardinal. 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