The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan from 31 January to 5 February 2023. He had planned to go in summer this year but that journey was postponed because of health issues.The Holy Father will visit the city of Kins.
Pope Francis will travel to Africa in January, spending a week in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in South Sudan—making a trip that he had been forced to postpone in July because of his health problems.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, together with His Holiness, Pope Francis, and The Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will make an Ecumenical Pilgrimage of Peace to Juba, South Sudan after the trip scheduled for this year was postponed.