Pope Francis Urges Congolese Youth to Work Towards a Better Future: DRC
The DRC is Africa's biggest Catholic country, and about 60 percent of its 100 million people are under the age of 20, according to UN figures.
"Never give in to the persuasive but poisonous temptations of corruption," he said in Italian, which was translated into the DRC's official language French.Pope Francis is due to meet Jesuit leaders and priests on the frontline of the church's work in the DRC.that organisers said drew about a million people.
He then met victims of conflict in the DRC's mineral-rich east, some of whom have suffered appalling violence."May He convert the hearts of those who carry out brutal atrocities, which bring shame upon all humanity," he said.Scores of armed groups roam eastern DRC, many of them a legacy of two wars at the end of the 20th century that
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