The Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan have formed a Provincial JPIC Commission

PROVINCIAL JPIC-R COMMISSION/ANTENNA

A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ACTION

1. Promoting Justice, Peace and Reconciliation with both People and Creation

The promotion of Peace, Reconciliation, Social and Environmental Justice is not only an essential dimension of mission, but has become a particular urgency in the apostolic work. These values are indeed constitutive elements of evangelization and come from the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth who said: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19).

In his own time and ways, Daniel Comboni put that into his mission plan as he was sensitive to the human, social, religious and cosmic cry of Central Africa. His methodology inspired works for justice and peace, notably to empower local people as the main agents of their own liberation and transformation, to show and practice solidarity with them, to network around the world, to be part of a team, and to aim for integral human promotion.

In compliance with the Comboni charisma and tradition, the General Chapter of 1985 confirmed JPIC as an integral part of the mission of the Church and a priority of our Institute. And very recently, the Church in Africa, through the Africae Munus, has taken on the commitment of reconciliation, justice and peace so as to help build a reconciled Africa by pursuing the paths of truth and justice, love and peace.
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