Ouagadougou, 26 December, 2024 / 5:24 pm (ACI Africa).
The people of God in Burkina Faso need to embrace a lifestyle that fosters peaceful coexistence, abandoning behaviors, which contribute to prolonging violent conflicts in the West African nation that grapples with the challenge of “insecurity and other crimes”, Archbishop Prosper Kontiebo of the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Ouagadougou has said.
In his Christmas 2024 messages, Archbishop Kontiebo calls on all Burkinabe citizens to get involved in rebuilding their country as “artisans of peace”.
“I call on the unity of the sons and daughters of this country to fight insecurity and other crimes,” he says in his December 23 message in which he describes insecurity as Burkina Faso’s “major challenge”.
“Let us work to ban division and cultivate a spirit of solidarity,” he further says, and emphasizes, “Let us be artisans of peace, destroying the walls of separation and building bridges of communion. Let us bear in mind that the construction of our country requires a high sense of honor, integrity, and dignity.”
The Burkinabe member of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick (M.I./Camillians) goes on to underscore the need to put an end to “injustice, corruption, (and) intolerance” if the peaceful coexistence can be achieved in the country.