At a Mass including more than one million participants, Pope Francis on Feb. 1 urged war-weary Congolese Catholics to be a "conscience of peace" as Africa's most populous Catholic nation struggles against ongoing armed conflict and entrenched ethnic divisions.
Pope Francis told the million Congolese gathered before him that Jesus has shown “three sources” from which “to nurture peace”: “forgiveness, community and mission.”
Kinshasa, DR Congo - Pope Francis on Tuesday is expected to land in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa's largest predominantly Catholic country