Cardinal Antoine Cardinal Kambanda called upon Christians to share the joy of Christmas with the poor. He made the call on Christmas Eve at Saint Michel church on Saturday December 24. “Christians should share Christmas with everyone, especially the poor, they must be the hands that God uses so that Jesus reaches everyone so they have a better and joyful life,” he said. The Cardinal also graced the Christmas mass in Kibungo cathedral aired on Pacis TV YouTube on Sunday where a number of children were baptized. “Jesus is the savior. Those who believe in Jesus should also teach others the Christians values,” he said. He called for harmony and peace all over the world. “Discrimination and divisionism should be eliminated because they trigger conflicts and wars. We should all love our God and that is how we can love each other as brothers and sisters,” he said. “ Jesus is the mediator of those in conflicts and wars so that we live in peace and security. This is good news that everyone should share on Christmas. We have to pray for those in crisis and war, refugees, patients and injured people. We have to share joy with the vulnerable people by sharing the little we have,” he said. Pope Francis has reminded the world’s Catholics to lower themselves in humility as they celebrate Christmas. In a message shared on his Twitter handle, he said “if we truly want to celebrate Christmas, let us rediscover awe before a God who becomes little, who is not born in splendour, but in the poverty of a stable.” Celebrating the 10th Christmas of his pontificate at a solemn Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, according to media reports, Francis asked people to look beyond consumerism that has “packaged” the feast and remember those suffering from war and poverty. This, he said, while urging people to remember the war weary and poor. Men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbours, their brothers and sisters, he said. How many wars have we seen! And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt!
