Sisters in South Sudan
Reflection: Bari Sacred Holy Week
What if the Bari Sacred Holy Week mirrored the Christian Holy Week Celebrations? The Bari is one of the 64 indigenous tribes of South Sudan. They occupy the center of the Central Equatorial State. Precisely, the defunct Jubek State with its capital Juba, the current Juba County. Bari people have traditional ways of preparing for…
‘Losing my heart’ in South Sudan
Sister Jacinta Prunty, a Holy Faith Sister of Ireland, recently made a three-year commitment as a volunteer tutor with Solidarity Teacher Training College, resigning from her job as a senior lecturer/associate professor in the Department of History at Maynooth University in Ireland. She says she “lost her heart” in South Sudan in 2019, when she…
Good news from Good Shepherd Peace Center
First, I hope that all our friends, donors, and supporters reading this newsletter are OK and keeping safe. Never have we known a year like this! I suspect we are only just beginning to appreciate the effects of this “new normal” on our lives… Good Shepherd Peace Center, located 13 kilometres southeast of Juba, capital…
Update on STTC remote learning
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 and England. “The tutors, those within the college, and those who are in their own…
Independence Day in South Sudan
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 reconciled easily or rapidly. We need only to recall the 400 years it has taken…
A reflection for Good Friday 2020
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 visually fatigued, suffering face and faltering steps of the Holy Father, at St. Peter’s, on…
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