Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans, was reported to have prayed with South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda.
During the prayers at a camp in the northern district of Moyo, he spoke about the Bible stating that God loves refugees.
“The Bible tells us that the refugee is specially loved by God.”
South Sudan is said to be a home to a about a million fugitives from a four-year civil war in the world’s youngest nation.
About 1.8 million people are estimated to have left South Sudan ever since the fighting broke out in December 2013.
This has led South Sudan to be the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis and largest cross-border exodus in Africa since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Most have fled south to Uganda, whose open-door refugee policy is now losing ground due to the numerous amount of refugees in camps carved out of the bush.
