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FiSolidarity Legacy Fund
Friends in Solidarity is pleased to announce that, with a major gift from Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, we have launched the FiSolidarity Legacy Fund to support our work with Solidarity with South Sudan into the future. The Victory ...
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Farm nourishes students in Wau
Abraham Makuac grew up in the small town of Aweil, South Sudan, but wanted a better education than what was available there. So his family sent him to live with relatives and enroll in school in Wau, the capital of ...
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A resilient woman
I've often used the word resilient to describe the people I met in South Sudan. None of them are untouched by hardship in one form or another, but they seem to get up the next day and get on with ...
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A teacher’s path in the Nuba Mountains
When Abass Daud was a child, there were no schools. There was only war. The government in Khartoum was waging war on his homeland in the Nuba Mountains, located in Sudan’s South Kordofan region near that country’s border with what ...
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‘You never feel like you’re alone’ – South Sudan woman chooses to be midwife
Rosaline Edwards Anthony knows what it’s like when the delivery of a child goes poorly. When she went into labor in 2020, a problem developed with her baby’s amniotic fluid. As contractions came and went, the medical staff couldn’t decide ...
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Friends in Solidarity at LCWR Assembly
Friends in Solidarity was privileged to have an exhibit at the Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) held in St. Louis Aug. 9-12. Fr. David Gentry-Akin, the newly appointed mission promoter for Solidarity with South Sudan, based ...
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New book on Solidarity with South Sudan examines a ‘communal journey’ of religious
NEW YORK — On the eve of the 11th anniversary of South Sudan's independence, a new book traces the history of Solidarity with South Sudan, noting that the collaborative 14-year-old ministry formed and run by female and male religious has ...
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Dancing for peace in Malakal
Peacemaking has a distinctly African rhythm in the camp for displaced persons in the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. Inside the camp’s crowded Catholic Church, young people are dancing. In a country at war, they say they’re dancing ...
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Resilient South Sudanese women deserve peace, respect, dignity
There was a growing sense of anticipation in South Sudan about the visit of Pope Francis to this country, originally scheduled for July, but now postponed. We are all so disappointed and are praying for the pope to be on ...
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