Solidarity with South Sudan
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 it. I’m fortunate to have a rather sunny disposition, inherited from God knows where, so…
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 is today South Sudan. “We were always running from the bombs of the Antonovs and…
‘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 what to do. Decisions passed from one doctor to another as shifts changed, even though…
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 in Rome, joined Sister Barbara Buckley, RSM, associate administrator of Friends in Solidarity, and Sister…
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 been a model in humanitarian efforts across congregational lines. Sr. Patricia Murray writes in the…
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…