The Vatican announced that it is donating about $515,000 towards projects in South Sudan, AFP news agency reports. This comes after Pope Francis dropped plans to visit South Sudan because of security fears. The country has experienced myriad conflicts since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011.
The $515,000 would be spent on two hospitals run by nuns, a teacher training programme and a project to buy seeds and tools for some 2,500 farming families.
At a press conference in the Vatican, Ghana’s Bishop Peter Turkson said the aid was a “concrete sign” of the pontiff’s closeness to the people of South Sudan.
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