DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PEACE in particular for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan will be observed on Friday, 23 February 2018 as announced by His Holiness Pope Francis recently. Although not obligatory, all Catholics in the Archdiocese are invited to join in this initiative. The Holy Father has also extended this invitation to members of other religions. Those who wish to heed this appeal may do so in the forms they consider most suitable in accordance with their own traditions and in their own places of worship.