Wau: clergy Warns Misuse of Freedom Attained

Ater Garang Ariath

Addressing hundred of congregation on Sunday at Wau, St. Mary Cathedral Catholic Church, the mass presiding Priest Paul Okech warns on South Sudanese for misused of the freedom attained after long struggle for nationhood.

We have gained this freedom because God is behind us, it meaningless if we use it for the destruction of ourselves and as well as our fellow South Sudanese, lamented on the hundred lives lose immediately after the proclamations  of independence.

Father Okech urges that independent means, harmony, unity, justice and mutual understanding among the people of the nation, than narrowly translated it into individual perspectives that preoccupied with hatred, ill intention and disharmony.

He calls upon South Sudanese, to use freedom for the salvation of other and the nation that they struggle together as brothers and sisters in Christ to achieved it during landmark plebiscite.

We can prosper enough if our faiths are strengthening to do good things for our nation as they children of God, meanwhile challenging the young generation over rampant immorality across the nation, of which young men and women sometime move half-naked, said Okech.

Our body is temple of God and we need not to indulge ourselves in to an actions which undermine us from being a good Christians of this unique nation of South Sudan, said Priest.

He further assures that good Christians are good citizens of their societies and nation of which they belong therefore, you have central role to play in this nation for the realization of permanent peace and unity among South Sudanese.

I want to assures you that {We} South Sudanese are not poor by nature but by our making, pointed  that the country had natural mineral  that can propel its to be strong and prosperous in the continent, he emphasis.

 These need hard  work and efforts that come from all people in order to exploit these natural resources for the benefit of all the citizens of this nation, he pointed.

He urges peace and security to be maintain internally, despite imminently peace threat by Sudan anti- elements of peace that want to prevail between two sisterly nations.