Pope’s visit to Mozambique overshadows election campaign – audio

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Pope’s visit to Mozambique overshadows election campaign – audio

3:18 CAT | 03 Sep 2019

Picture: Voa Portugues

Pope Francis’ visit to Mozambique from the 4th to the 6th of this month is overshadowing the campaign for the October 15 elections, which began last Saturday.

The visit is also contributing to the strengthening of interreligious relations, which in some cases were not good.

“It doesn’t even look like we are in an election campaign; people are more concerned about the Pope’s visit than the campaign,” Laura Lobato, a congregant at the Jehovah’s Witnesses church in Maputo, says. “Perhaps the situation will change after the Pope’s visit.”

Salvador Uamusse of the Church of Zion voices the same opinion. He says that the intense interest of people around this visit indicates that they “believe in the spiritual power that the Pope brings to Mozambique.”

Dany Ibrahimo of the Islamic Council agrees. “We know there have been misunderstandings between churches in this country, but right now, I don’t know who is a believer in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the Assembly of God or the United Methodists; we are all in tune with the papal visit,” he says.

Nelson Moda of the Community of Santo Egidio is of the same mind. “One of the things that this visit will bring to us, to be reborn in us, is the thread of hope we have lost as Mozambicans. To be reborn in the spirit of sharing and solidarity as one people, because sometimes we get carried away by ethnic, linguistic and provincial borders,” he comments.

Source: Voa Portugues