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Live chat with bishop from southern Sudan

10/06/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, North America, Peacebuilding, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

The first miracle in Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala’s life happened when he was just a few months old. During a military raid on his village in southern Sudan, soldiers entered his family’s house and killed his mother and sister. They left baby Eduardo unharmed and didn’t burn down the house. Now, 47 years later, he is ...

Caritas aid for 100,000 people in South Sudan as new nation is born

10/06/2011 Africa, News, Press Release, South Sudan by Caritas Communications

Caritas members in South Sudan aim to provide 100,000 people with water, food, shelter, health and education. South Sudan becomes an independent state 9 July 2011 after decades of conflict, poor governance and natural disasters. People in the emerging nation face an acute shortage of basic needs as the country lacks infrastructure and faces high ...

Pentecost celebrations in run up to South Sudan independence

7/06/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

As part of programme of prayer and activities leading upto 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 independence day, families, institutions, schools ...

Sudan: Be calm but vigilant…

7/04/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Statement from the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference Be calm but vigilant… (1 Peter 5:8) 7th April 2011 We the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, gathered in Extraordinary Plenary assembly in Juba, South Sudan, from 1st – 7th April 2011, have prayed and reflected together on the situation in our beloved Sudan. Mindful of our responsibility as ...

Tensions rise in Sudan’s Abyei region

18/03/2011 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

by Sara Fajardo, CRS communications officer The March 2 and 5 attacks in the contested oil rich region of Abyei, Sudan, have led to estimates of more than 100 dead and 20,000-25,000, nearly half the population, deserting Abyei town. Abyei is proving to be one of the most difficult areas to resolve between northern and ...

Sudan votes: tears make way for hopes

21/01/2011 Africa, Aid Success Story, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, North America, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

by Renee Lambert, Emergency Coordinator Young Sudanese polling officials sat inside a small two room school, silently unfolding ballots while national and international observers looked on. It was just after 7 pm, the polls had closed 2 hours earlier. Outside the school the sun was setting, so the polling officials were counting by the light of ...

Last day of vote in Sudan

17/01/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, North America, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

By Sara A. Fajardo Click here to view more pictures. Watching the southern Sudanese line up to cast their ballots has been a lesson in civic-duty. Eric Keri, a tall lanky 50 year-old father of 10, refused to leave Sudan until the last day of the vote. Despite having family in neighbouring Uganda he chose ...

Sudan votes: the journey home

14/01/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

By Sara A. Fajardo-Henning At 7 a.m. in the morning the Juba port bristles with early morning rooster calls, women laundering along the banks of the Nile, and young children stirring on bed mats where they nestle like kittens in their temporary open-air bedrooms. They arrived by the hundreds, these Sudanese who meandered down the ...

Sudan votes: the Movie

11/01/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Migration, North America, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan, United States by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JlUsgg9c44&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] By Sara Fajardo in Juba for Catholic Relief Services (CRS is a member of Caritas from the USA)

Cardinal Napier calls for just solutions for Sudan

10/01/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Peacebuilding, South Sudan, Sudan by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNodsCZtLg&fs=1&hl=en_GB&rel=0] Cardinal Wilfrid Napier OFM, Archbishop of Durban, South Africa is part of an ecumenical monitoring team in southern Sudan as people cast their ballots to decide on self-determination. He accompanied Archbishop Paulino Lokudu Loro of Juba to vote. (Footage by Sara Fajardo/Catholic Relief services).