Missionary Work in Africa
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 Noll Sisters, celebrating 100 years of missionary service, have a heart for the poor and…
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 for peace. “I like to dance,” said Vivian James, a teenager in the sprawling camp…
‘Now things are better’ for women in South Sudan village
When Juliana John sees the newborn piglets in her garden, she thinks about how they’ll help her children continue in school. Like all the families in Riimenze, in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State, John has struggled with keeping her family alive and safe amid massive violence and repeated displacement. A key to her survival, she…
Letter from Fr. Mike in Malakal
Camp of Malakal, August 12, 2021 I have been in the United Nations camp for Internally Displaced People since November 2014. There are now as of today 33,000 people living in the camp in plastic sheeting tents or in small tin roof structures very close to one another. There have been some cases of the…
Midwife grateful for ‘strong foundation’ from CHTI
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 Kuron Health Clinic located some 280 kilometers (174 miles) from Kapoeta Town. Beatrice says that…
Learning to walk in the way of peace
Learning to walk in the way of peace! In this second half of May as we awake from April’s cruel ending– The shooting of our Bishop-elect, Christian Carlassera in Rumbek; After receiving news of random killings in Yei, in the countryside of Torit, and horrors beyond South Sudan: Ignited conflicts between Israeli and Palestinian brethren,…