A South Sudanese bishop says food has been weaponised during the civil war in Sudan, with famine now looming in his neighbouring country as a direct result of the conflict. Speaking to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Bishop Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo of Yei, South Sudan, was critical of tactics being used Read more
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South Sudanese refugees, fleeing a second civil war in Sudan, return home to bleak prospects
Monday, October 2nd, 2023Sitting outside her tent with her children at the Internally Displaced Peoples camp in northeastern South Sudan, Magaret Dut Wol described through tears how her family had not eaten for days and was about to die from hunger. “There’s no food for South Sudanese refugees returning from Sudan due to the ongoing civil war,” said Read more
Francis headed to South Sudan where people eat leaves to survive
Monday, December 5th, 2022
Around 40 percent of the people in Amothic, South Sudan are eating leaves off trees to survive. Some of the children have diarrhoea from eating them. Half the village is eating their seed stocks too, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NCR) reports. While NRC is helping around 100,000 South Sudanese, those eating their seed stocks means Read more
Shot bishop-elect meets pope
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
On Monday, Pope Francis met the South Sudan bishop-elect who was shot in the legs last April shortly after his nomination to lead Rumbek diocese. Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare (44) had a private meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday. Carlassare’s episcopal consecration is scheduled for March 25. It was deferred after the shooting, Read more
Bishop appointed in South Sudan diocese after nearly 10 years vacancy
Thursday, March 11th, 2021Father Christian Carlassare was appointed Bishop of Rumbek, South Sudan, on Monday, nearly 10 years since the death of the diocese’s last bishop. He described his appointment as an illustration of “the God of surprises.” In a message to ACI Africa, Fr. Carlassare said he welcomed his episcopal appointment in a “spirit of faith” even Read more
Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury to visit South Sudan together
Thursday, November 14th, 2019November 13, at the Vatican, Pope Francis received His Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. During the cordial talks, the Holy Father and the Archbishop of Canterbury agreed that, if the political situation in the country should allow the establishment of a transitional government of national unity in the next 100 days, at the Read more
Pope Francis kisses feet of South Sudan’s leaders in bid for peace
Monday, April 15th, 2019
Pope Francis knelt to kiss the feet of South Sudan’s previously warring leaders urging them to respect the armistice they signed and to commit to forming a unified government next month. “I am asking you as a brother to stay in peace. I am asking you with my heart, let us go forward. There will Read more
Archbishop of Canterbury leads Vatican spiritual retreat with Pope
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, led a spiritual retreat for South Sudan’s leaders at the Vatican this week. The “unprecedented” spiritual retreat, which finished yesterday, was described by Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti as a “propitious occasion for reflection and prayer”. He says it offered “an occasion for encounter and reconciliation, in Read more
Missionary sister receives International Women of Courage award
Monday, March 11th, 2019
An Irish Loreto sister is one of this year’s International Women of Courage awards’ recipients. In announcing the awards last week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sr Orla Treacy’s work “has become a beacon of hope for girls who might otherwise be denied education and forced to enter early marriages”. Treacy received the Read more
Sudan’s Catholic leaders hopeful of lasting ceasefire
Monday, July 2nd, 2018Sudan’s Catholic leaders are hopeful the country’s almost five-year civil war is at an end. A ceasefire has been declared by South Sudan officials and rebel leaders. While Bishop Barani Hiiboro, president of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishop’s Conference, welcomed the ceasefire he says: “if it is to mean anything for the suffering Read more