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Pope and Justin Welby to visit South Sudan amid tensions over LGBTQ+ rights

Pope and Justin Welby to visit South Sudan amid tensions over LGBTQ+ rights

Head of Anglican church in South Sudan said archbishop of Canterbury was ‘failing to defend biblical truth’

Pope Francis and the archbishop of Canterbury will begin a historic joint visit to South Sudan on Friday against the backdrop of potential tensions over LGBTQ+ rights.

The leaders of the global Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, whose numbers are growing in sub-Saharan Africa in contrast to the west, will be joined on their “pilgrimage of peace” by the leader of the Church of Scotland.

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