“Little Tour”: Cardinal Announced That the Prodigal Son Is Back
Abidjan Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa, 75, announced this during a June 19 Sunday Eucharist which Gbagbo attended.
"I would like to make a big announcement, President Laurent Gbagbo was baptized Catholic but, in his journey, at one point he left the Church to become an evangelical,” the Cardinal said, “After this little tour with the evangelicals he said no, I return to the religion in which I was baptised."
Under the ovations of the faithful present in the Cathedral, Cardinal Kutwa gave a rosary to the ex-president. "By giving you this rosary, I entrust you to the Virgin because the train of reconciliation is on the tracks, but it must go to the station of peace," Kutwa added.
Gbagbo was arrested by French troups in April 2011 for crimes against humanity, including rape and murder, allegedly committed during the post-election crisis of 2010-2011. At the time, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – a war criminal herself – said that Gbagbo's capture "sends a strong signal to dictators and tyrants.”
He spent almost ten years in jail before he was acquitted on June 17, by the International Criminal Court and returned to his country.
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