{"id":92518,"date":"2017-05-30T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=92518"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:31:14","slug":"vatican-scraps-plan-for-pope-to-go-to-south-sudan-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=92518","title":{"rendered":"Vatican scraps plan for Pope to go to South Sudan this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Vatican said on Tuesday it had scrapped tentative plans for Pope Francis to make a visit this year to South Sudan, which has been hit by civil war, famine and a refugee crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the trip &#8220;was not for this year&#8221; but did not say when it might now take place.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Church leaders in the country said they had expected the pope would visit the capital, Juba, probably in October, but the Vatican had never announced the trip officially.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Burke did not give a reason for the cancellation of the plans but Vatican and Church sources said it was a combination of security concerns and logistics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The trip was to have lasted only one day and the pope was to have flown in after spending a night in another African country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was to have made the trip with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the worldwide Anglican communion, in an effort to promote unity in the mostly Christian country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar exploded into fighting, often along ethnic lines. 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