Luanda (Fides Service) - "Today, my dear brother Bishops, a new springtime opens before you, marked by dreams and hope…A time in which you will devote all your energy to consolidating peace, promoting reconciliation, forgiveness and Christian charity…A time in which it will be necessary to heal the deep wounds which long years of hardship and war have dug in the lives of millions of Angolans". Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples said this in an address to the Bishops of Angola and Sao Tome, in Luanda on October 25, the first of his two day visit to the country. Speaking of the need for renewal in the Church in Angola, in order to face new challenges, after the signing of peace agreements on April 4, the Cardinal underlined that "the time has come to undertake new evangelisation because only Christ can put in the heart of every Angolan, converted by grace and anchored to grace, the true contents and values of peace". "The people of Angola are hungry for bread, justice, health, instruction security. But dear Brothers, allow me to remind you of something of which you are well aware: your people are thirsting for God!" The Cardinal transmitted to the Bishops the apostolic blessing of Pope John Paul II and he recalled the visit to Angola made by the Pope in 1992. See Cardinal Sepe's address on Italian and Portuguese www.fides.org (Fides Service 26/10/2002)