EUROPE/ITALY - The General Council of Comboni Missionaries: let us pray for many people who in South Sudan suffer from insecurity and violence

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The General Council of Comboni Missionaries were informed that unidentified gunmen broke into the home of the bishop-designate of Rumbek, South Sudan, Msgr. Christian Carlassare, and shot him in both legs and fled.
At the moment, neither the identity of the attackers nor the reasons for this attack is known, underlines the statement issued by the Generalate in Rome.
"We learned from the Provincial of South Sudan that Mgr. Carlassare's conditions are currently stable: it seems that the wound concerns only the soft tissues of both legs and that the damage was apparently limited to a significant loss of blood which required a transfusion. CUAMM doctors present at Rumbek Hospital are treating him while waiting for his transfer to Juba. Mgr. Carlassare asked to reassure all the confreres that he is quite well and invites us to pray above all for the people of Rumbek who - in his words - "are suffering more than him". He added that he forgives his attackers.
We join the feeling of the many who are expressing their dismay at this umpteenth episode of violence against defenseless and innocent people.
Following the invitation of Archbishop Carlassare, let us pray for the many people of good will who, in South Sudan, suffer from the persistence of insecurity and violence. We also pray for the rapid recovery of Mgr. Carlassare so as to allow him to be consecrated Bishop, as planned, on May 23 and to resume his apostolic ministry at the service of the Church and the people of South Sudan.
May St. Daniel Comboni continue to protect his confreres and intercede so that our prayer may hasten peace and harmony in this land he loves so much". (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 27/4/2021)

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