By Bellah Zulu, ACNS
The President of South Sudan has appointed the Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan to chair the national reconciliation committee "trying to heal the mental wounds"’ in the world’s newest nation after 40 years of war.
[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!”
6 July [ENInews]-As South Sudan prepares to mark its first anniversary as a nation on 9 July, Christian leaders said it has made positive progress, but also highlighted significant problems.
Khartoum - An Islamic fundamentalist group in Sudan made an attempt to bring down a church in the capital Khartoum and eventually managed to set it on fire.
[Ecumenical News International] Reacting to some of the worst fighting between Sudan and South Sudan since the southern country achieved independence last July, two international church groups on April 17 expressed “grave concern” and called for an immediate ceasefire.
The Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town has written to the Most Revd Dr Daniel Deng Bul Yak, Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, expressing the support of his church in the light of increasing tension and violence between Sudan and South Sudan.
Archbishop Daniel Deng along with a provincial support team travelled to Bor in order to meet with the newly-formed Inter-Church Committee for Peace, Mediation and Reconciliation.
Open Doors’ 2012 World Watch List ranks countries where Christians suffered in 2011.
Sudan and northern Nigeria saw steeper increases in persecution against Christians than 48 other nations where Christians suffered abuse last year, according to an annual ranking by Christian support organization Open Doors.
17 January (ENI news). Christian humanitarian agencies are delivering relief aid to thousands of people displaced in inter-tribal conflict in South Sudan, the world's newest nation.
By Gisela Perez-Mauri, The Sudan Tribune
About one hundred Sudanese and South Sudanese citizens gathered outside the United Nations on Friday to push the international community to take action on ongoing killings and bombings in Sudan’s South Kordofan, a state bordering South Sudan, after reports of heavy fighting in June and satellite images of alleged mass graves last month.
By Fredrick Nzwili ENI in Nairobi, Kenya
The government must allow humanitarian access to civilians who have been displaced by the fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan state, Sudanese clergy said, amid reports of continued bombardment in the Nuba Mountains.
By ACNS staff
A Sudanese headmaster has made an urgent appeal for help after armed thugs broke in to his diocesan school and left a security guard for dead.
From Anglican Diocese of Melbourne
Anglicans from Melbourne and all over the world are offering prayers and support to Sudan and striving to find ways to help the chaos-torn nation, which is soon to be split into two separate countries.
From The Community of the Hands and Feet
Christians from across the British capital joined together to pray outside the Sudanese Embassy in London on Sunday to honour a call for solidarity with the people of Sudan.
By Jane Still, Communications Manager, Anglicord
Anglicans in Melbourne, where large numbers of Sudanese refugees have settled, have expressed deep concern about escalating violence in Sudan that threatens to plunge the beleaguered country into another civil war.
The Anglican Alliance is co-ordinating with Anglican agencies to provide support for the Episcopal Church in Sudan during the current humanitarian crisis.
On Africa Day, 25th May 2011, Archbishop Dr Thabo Makgoba, wrote this open letter to his colleague, the Most Revd Daniel Deng Bul Yak, the Archbishop of the Sudan
From the website of the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland
An appeal has been launched by the diocesan Sudanese Ministry based in Moe to help fund an English-speaking program for the Sudanese.
A group of women in southern Sudan who have set up their own Body Shop-style business producing and selling women’s cosmetics are suggesting that the fragrances can keep men faithful.
