South Sudan News

Chris Herlinger, international correspondent for Global Sisters Report, recently interviewed Sister Joan Mumaw, IHM, about her trip to South Sudan in November 2019.  As the president and chief administrative officer for the Maryland-based Friends in Solidarity, the U.S. partner to ...
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Achol Andrew, 23, is a third year midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Sister Joan visited with her last week and took this video: Achol has has two brothers and five sisters. “Life ...
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Margaret Namoyo, 24 years old, is a nursing student at Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Sister Joan visited with her last week and took this video: Margaret is from Juba. She has three brothers and two ...
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Very special greetings to all of the supporters of Solidarity with South Sudan and Friends in Solidarity. I am in South Sudan visiting the projects that you support. Gratitude for your support of the work of Solidarity abounds. My first ...
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Innocent Abdalla is a 2016 graduate of Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC). After graduation, Innocent taught at St. Mary’s School in Yambio for six months and then at a school in Tambura town, where he was the only qualified teacher ...
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LET THE CRY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN BE LISTENED TO AND RESPECTED We, the Catholic Bishops and Ordinaries of South Sudan, meeting in Juba on 17th and 18th October 2019, in the presence of ...
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I am sending you a special message with an urgent request for prayers for the people of South Sudan. The government and opposition, who have been fighting since the end of 2013, have been engaged in implementing a peace agreement ...
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Above photo: Clinical rotation at CHTI. Photo by Nyokabi Kahura Students at Solidarity's Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau are being well prepared for a future in health care. "Evaluations from employers offer high praise for these graduates who ...
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Brother Christian Mbam Ndubisi, FMS, works at the camp for internally displaced persons in Riimenze, South Sudan. The camp of close to 7,000 people formed in January 2017 around the parish church in the wake of a violent attack on ...
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