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April 11, 2013
Women from the Mothers’ Union participate in a Bible study at a diocese-wide leadership workshop that incorporates health lessons. Photo courtesy of Darriel Harris.
[Faith & Leadership] I often heard it during my time in South Sudan: “Let me tell you a story.”
Bishop Enock Tombe and other leaders of the Episcopal Church of Sudan would say this before starting to speak, and through...
January 23, 2013
[AllAfrica.com via Anglican Communion News Service – Nairobi, Kenya] A panel of African civil society leaders, including Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail, were joined Jan. 23 by the former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, in urging African political leaders to use the upcoming African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa to end the humanitarian suffering in Sudan...
January 22, 2013
[St. George's Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Virginia] “..Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day but teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for years. Give a boy/man the right tools and there is no stopping him!”
During 2012, the newest country in the world, South Sudan, has faced a border conflict with the Republic of Sudan to the north. The eruption of new...
May 17, 2012
"But what do you do to cope?" I asked my new friend, Anne, who coordinates refugee programming in Kenya and lived in the Dadaab refugee camp for several years.
Anne looked up at me with a child-like grin and sparkle in her eye.
"In Dadaab, we dance. Every night, we dance."
I saw this same resilience thriving across South Sudan, amidst the conflict, poverty, and desperate need...
November 23, 2011
An outspoken statement from the Episcopal Church of Sudan's Provincial Synod has called for an end to the executions of civilians, aerial bombings, and armed conflict - particularly the "cancer of the Western Equatoria State...the Lord's Resistance Army."
In the statement, released Nov. 23, the synod called repeatedly called for peace, and an end to conflict, and stressed its...
June 30, 2011
A Sudanese headmaster has made an urgent appeal for help after armed thugs broke in to his diocesan school and left a security guard dead.
Headmaster Philip Gasim Logun plans to erect a permanent wall around Juba Diocesan Model Secondary School after six armed thieves raided the building school in the early hours of June 23. They brutally assaulted the security guard and then stole all the...
January 9, 2011
Few generations have the chance to shape the future of their people in such a dramatic way as the people of southern Sudan do today. Few people get to witness the birth of a new nation. And few nations divide in peace. The success of today's voting is a sign that all of this is happening in Sudan right now.
Thousands of people were already lined up at every polling station around Juba when...
January 6, 2011
In a Jan. 6 interview, Sudanese Bishop Joseph Garang of the Diocese of Renk speaks with ENS editor and international correspondent Matthew Davies about the upcoming referendum on independence, the importance of international partnerships, and the church's role in ensuring peace and stability in the region.
The referendum is the final provision in Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement,...