SOUTH SUDAN - "It is too easy to describe the conflict in South Sudan as exclusively ethnic. The struggle for power, corruption, poor management of military, political leadership, of resources and the lack of basic freedom are real situations that complicate the conflict strongly", writes to Fides Fr. Daniele Moschetti, a Comboni missionary who served in South Sudan for six years...
SOUTH SUDAN - There are many different styles of Leadership. In 1978, I read a parable in a Hong Kong newspaper that caught my attention and I have used it many times since in talking about leadership. At that time the Soviet Union had been led by only four General Secretaries, or Presidents, who held the positions for a significant time: Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev...
SOUTH SUDAN - The fighting, the killing, the raping, the savagery of the civil war in South Sudan, make the headline news but among the quiet and peaceful, general populace there are some very basic problems facing the people, especially those who live in the PoC camps or the large towns. Powdered milk, tea, coffee, sugar and all kinds of food are already very expensive...
S. SUDAN - When violence erupted in Juba in December 2013, it spread quickly to only three of the ten states that then existed in South Sudan: Upper Nile, Unity State and Jonglei State. The fighting was intense and a town such as Malakal, in Upper Nile State, was successively under opposition and government troops at least a dozen times. It very quickly became a very ‘dirty’ war...
S. SUDAN - I returned from home leave a little over a month ago and have just completed trips within South Sudan from Juba to Rumbek, Wau, Yambio and Riimenze, for various meetings. This country is truly in a horrible mess and many people are suffering. As I ponder the situation, however, words from Bishop Kenneth Untener...
SOUTH SUDAN - A group of 46 brothers, sisters and priests, belonging to 25 Religious Congregations, all members of the Religious Superiors’ Association of South Sudan (RSASS), has attended a five-day workshop on Consecrated Life and held the RSASS Annual General Assembly 2017 at the Good Shepherd Peace Centre, in Kit (Juba), from 24th – 29th April 2017...
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SOLIDARITY WITH S. SUDAN - More than just a job, a calling to do well. Employment conditions - a relatively quiet office located in Rome, conveniently situated, where the ideal candidate would essentially become part of a dedicated team trying to assist one of the most impoverished nations on earth – South Sudan...
SOUTH SUDAN - Solidarity with South Sudan is looking to appoint an Executive Director to head the organization, solidarity with South Sudan aims to create self-sustainable educational, health and pastoral institutions and programs that will help to empower South Sudanese people to build a just and peaceful society. Solidarity is a collaborative...
SOUTH SUDAN - Currently, I am on home leave in Melbourne. I shall be back in South Sudan on Easter Sunday. One evening last week, I attended a function, organized by the Lasallian Foundation, on the 89 th floor of the Eureka Tower from where one can look out with a panoramic view of the city. ‘There are more lights here than in the whole of South Sudan’...
SOUTH SUDAN - Solidarity with South Sudan aims to create self-sustainable educational, health and pastoral institutions and programs that will help to empower South Sudanese people to build a just and peaceful society. Solidarity is a collaborative commitment of religious institutes of men and women, members of the Unions of Superiors General...
SOUTH SUDAN - In our missionary life – writes Fr. Krzysztof Zebik, mccj – we have always to be ready for changes of place. I feel sometimes like Jesus who says in the Gospel, “Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Mt 8:20). As missionaries, we are in one place today...
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SOUTH SUDAN - Dear friends, donors, sponsors and benefactors. Peace be with you! How are you? We have come to the last issue of KIT NEWS No. 8 . On 15 th October 2016 we have finally inaugurated officially the GOOD SHEPHERD PEACE CENTER of Kit. There were almost one thousand people and a very good atmosphere...
SOUTH SUDAN - We are here again to give you further news on the development of the Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Center and to keep you informed of our plans to assist the mission of the Church in this new nation of South Sudan. I believe that each one of you has heard about what happened at the beginning of July 2016 in Juba and the heavy...
SOUTH SUDAN - Report on funding and development Center for Human, Pastoral and Spiritual Formation, Peace Building and Trauma Healing for South Sudanese and Church Personnel - lay, clergy and religious in Kit near Juba, SOUTH SUDAN. Dear Friends, Donors, Sponsors and Benefactors. Peace be with you! We are here again to give you further news...
SOUTH SUDAN - The immediate outlook in South Sudan remains uncertain but many NGO personnel are now returning. A delegation from the UN Security Council is here. The clear message is that the world Is not abandoning the people of this strife-torn nation. I am not too old to notice that many of the returning foreign workers are young women!
SOUTH SUDAN - From Bishop Eduardo Hildeboro. Dear my beloved Sisters and Brothers, “Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet. 3:15). As Christians we must remain steadfast in this time of trial, just as we have throughout the centuries before and now in South Sudan, through the long turns of struggles for survival...
SOUTH SUDAN - A ceasefire called Monday in South Sudan, the site of bloody clashes this past week between troops of opposing political factions, appeared to be holding as of Friday, July 15, but the peace is uneasy at best. The latest crisis for the world's newest country has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands displaced.
