South Sudan News

Friends in Solidarity, Inc., is pleased to announce the addition of Sister Barbara Buckley, RSM to the staff as associate administrative officer. "Barbara sees her work with Friends in Solidarity as an opportunity to use her fundraising, writing, and administrative ...
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The students of Solidarity Teacher Training College are unable to attend classes in person, but that has not stopped them from learning. The school's remote learning program using smart phones continues, with staff members providing virtual instruction from Italy, Ireland ...
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South Sudan enters its 10th year of independence on July 9. On this date in 2011, hope in the promise of this new nation was bright as the people emerged from decades of civil war. Ethnic discord, however, is not ...
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Distance learning in South Sudan is a new experience for everyone, and a challenge for most of those involved. It is one thing to quickly check your Facebook page, but quite another to download two or three pages of material ...
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May 30, 2020 Greetings! We hope that this letter finds you and your congregation/family healthy and recovering from any cases of COVID-19. You all have been in our prayers during this global pandemic that has brought sadness and grief to ...
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Friends in Solidarity, the U.S. partner to Solidarity with South Sudan, acknowledges the pain of our African-American brothers and sisters and deplores the senseless murder of Mr. George Floyd and the other victims of police brutality. We join our voice ...
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Greetings from South Sudan, where we, like much of the world, are under lockdown, and domestic and international airline flights are canceled. To date, there are still only five confirmed cases of the coronavirus nationwide, but without any testing on ...
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Alia Beatrice Peter is a 2017 graduate of Solidarity with South Sudan's Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau. Previously, she had been a nursery school teacher in Kuron. Now a trained midwife, she has returned to work in the ...
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In these days, attentive reflection moves all of us, in the world, in a similar direction. We find ourselves sharing in and being made participants, as never before, in the Passion of the Christ. We have seen it in the ...
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