Solidarity with South Sudan
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,…
COVID-19: Vaccine equity a global concern
The African continent with few exceptions has been spared the ravages of COVID-19. As of May 15, 2021, there are 10,650 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Sudan, 115 deaths and a positivity rate of 1.4 percent. More than 150,000 people have been tested; rural areas are unaffected at this point in time, and most…
Seeing Jesus in our sisters and brothers in South Sudan
In Matthew 25, Jesus instructs us about entering the Kingdom: “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Good Friday is not the end of the story. After suffering pain, betrayal, duplicity, cowardice, cruelty, Jesus still believes that the human spirit, infused with…
Reflection: The Good Shepherd
In our fourth Sunday of Easter, we meditate on the beautiful words of Jesus Christ where he calls himself the Good Shepherd. (John 10:11-18). When talking of sheep or cattle in South Sudan, we think more of an open landscape, a vast wilderness where shepherds, usually middle- aged men or adolescent boys, travel with their…
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…