and culture.”

A Roman news agency specializing in Vatican affairs has reported that following the controversy, Sanders may call his visit off and “postpone it for a more opportune moment.” The agency, Il Sismografo, also notes that there has been “no official confirmation that Bernie Sanders” will take part in the Vatican meeting, even though Bishop Sanchez himself sent a letter on April 8 announcing Sanders’ participation.

The Vatican has insisted that Catholic institutions not offer platforms to speakers who publicly agitate for moral positions contrary to Church teaching, notably on the abortion issue. Vatican voices have also criticized the invitation as completely out of place in the midst of an election year in the United States, and only four days before the New York primary, given the Church’s stated(2 Nov 2017) South SudanesePresidentSalva Kiir finished a two-day visit to Sudan on Thursday in which he met Sudanese PresidentOmar al-Bashir.
It was Kiir's first visit to the country since 2015.
The leaders announced they had reached a new agreement concerning the two country's contested borders and how to stem the flow of weapons to rebel groups at war with governments in the border regions.
The enforcement at border crossings has been lacking due to fighting in the areas of Darfur and Kurdofan.
Sudan's president Omar Al-Bashir said that he hoped that the measures might help bring the country's nearly four-year-old civil war in the Darfur and South Kordofan region to an end.
South Sudan has been plagued by fighting since 2013, just two years after a popular referendum resulted in the country's