WAR IS NEVER GOOD NEWS

A brief reflection presented by Archbishop John Baptist Odama during a press conference with journalists from Gulu District on June 20, 2008

War is never, never good news for humanity.

Its children are:

Death, destruction; it destroys what it claims to defend or save

Loss of property, misery, madness/nonsense, dehumanization, destruction of human life, fear, falsehood, counter accusations, broken relationship, self-defeat of humanity, hatred, anger, revenge, mistrust, trauma, etc.

Those who intend and plan to go to war or have started war must know that the cry of the innocent like babies, children, their mothers, the elderly indeed the majority will reach God.

Those architects and contractors of war will have to be accountable, first witnesses against themselves, in front of God and Humanity

Let reason, trust, hope, courage and love, dialogue triumph to save the sacred and precious human lives in every country.

 

 +John Baptist Odama
       Archbishop of Gulu

June 20, 2008