Women bent over handmade brooms sweep the streets of southern Sudan’s capital of Juba free of dust each morning. On the few miles of paved city roads, concrete road dividers are brightened with freshly planted flowers and saplings. The entry gates of buildings and homes boast fresh green paint. The rows of robust trees along [...]
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CRS communications officer Kim Pozniak is reporting for Caritas on the advent of independence in southern Sudan. She filed this report for the Caritas blog: When I arrived in South Sudan’s future capital Juba yesterday, the joyous preparations for independence were immediately apparent. Landing at the airport, another passenger pointed out the newly installed lights [...]
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Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, was in Agok, Sudan working to assist some of the more than 100,000 people displaced by recent violence in the contested border area of Abyei, Sudan. He shares with us his impressions from the field. One thing that has become apparent to me while working to meet [...]
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Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, who was in Agok, Sudan working to assist some of the more than 100,000 people displaced by recent violence in the contested border area of Abyei, Sudan. He shares with us his impressions from the field. The situation here in Agok is still very fluid. It’s been [...]
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Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, is in Agok, Sudan working to assist some of the more than 90,000 people displaced by recent violence in the contested border area of Abyei, Sudan. He shares with us his impressions from the field. Whenever a person responds to an emergency situation you have to face [...]
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Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, is in Agok, Sudan working to assist some of the more than 90,000 people displaced by recent violence in the contested border area of Abyei, Sudan. He shares with us his impressions from the field. Getting to Agok was an odyssey in and of itself. We had [...]
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Please click the play button in the box below to read the transcript of our recent live, 1-hour chat with Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of southern Sudan. Bishop Kussala chatted with Catholics from around the United States about the current situation in Sudan, the upcoming independence for South Sudan and the great work Catholics in [...]
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From Caritas: As part of programme of prayer and activities leading up to the independence for South Sudan on 9 July, the Sudanese Catholic Church will be blessing and planting trees of life to mark Pentecost this Sunday 12 June. Each diocese will plant a tree as a symbol of new birth. From Sunday until [...]
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A wave of violence broke out on May 19th and has continued over the past several days along the 4,000 square-mile region of Abyei between north Sudan and soon to be formed Republic of South Sudan. Under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Abyei was slated to undergo its own referendum vote in early January [...]
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From The Observer: The Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team furthered its social justice initiative with a Playing for Peace game followed by an interhall tournament Sunday. Kevin Dugan, director of Men’s Lacrosse Operations, said they held the tournament to show Notre Dame’s unceasing support of Sudan. The initiative began fall semester with a three-on-three basketball [...]
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