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Christian leaders write to South Sudanese politicians on 10th anniversary of independence

July 09, 2021

The tenth anniversary of South Sudan’s birth as an independent nation “calls to mind your past struggles and points with hope to the future,” reads a letter addressed to South Sudan’s political leaders, which was signed by Pope Francis, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, and Jim Wallace, this year’s Moderator of the Church of Scotland’s

Bishop-elect Shot in South Sudan

April 27, 2021

Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare MCCJ is in stable condition in a Rumbek hospital operated by the Italian organization, Doctors with Africa (CUAMM), according to ACI Africa.

“I don’t want stupid priests in the church,” says retired Sudanese Cardinal

January 25, 2021

"During the days I have spent here in Wau, I have been meeting priests and I have noticed that most of them don’t know the liturgy of the church, they have shallow teaching of the church,” said the Archbishop Emeritus of Khartoum.