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Clergy Ask Kony to Resume Talks


New Vision (Kampala)


NEWS
1 January 2008
Posted to the web 2 January 2008

By Dennis Ojwee
Kampala

ACHOLI religious leaders have asked the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) chief,
Joseph Kony, to stop fighting and resume peace negotiations in Juba. The call
was made by the Gulu district Khadi, Sheikh Musa Khalil, during the end-of-year
peace prayers at Kaunda Grounds.

Referring to last week's reports that the LRA attacked a Catholic mission in
the DR Congo, Khalil asked Kony to restrain his men from targeting civilians.



Other religious leaders present were the Anglican bishop of northern Uganda,
the Rt. Rev. Nelson Onono-Onweng, retired Kitgum diocese bishop McLeod Baker
Ochola, the vicar-general of Gulu Catholic archdiocese, Monsignor Matthew Odong
and Orach from the Orthodox Church.

They also prayed for restoration of peace in Kenya following election violence
and in Pakistan where the opposition party leader Benazir Bhutto was
assassinated recently. Ochola prayed that Bhutto's killers be brought to book.


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