Anglican Journal editor Leanne Larmondin travelled to south Sudan from March 26 to April 3 with an international, ecumenical delegation representing the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the All Africa Conference of Churches....
Category: May 2008, Sudan: A nation rebuilds, World Council of Churches, Africa

Area: 2.5 million sq. km.; the largest country in Africa; about the size of Ontario and Quebec combinedCities: Capital: Khartoum /Omdurman, Port Sudan, Juba (capital of South Sudan), Wau, Rumbek, YeiPopulation: (2005 est.): 39.3...
Category: May 2008, Africa, Sudan: A nation rebuilds

TOO COOL: From the air, the roofs of Sudanese houses look like tiny coolie hats. The traditional huts are made of mud, clay and grass with thatched roofs; they can be round, square or rectangular, and are called tukuls...
Category: May 2008, Sudan: A nation rebuilds, Africa
The Episcopal Church of Sudan, which recently elected Bishop Daniel Deng Bul of the diocese of Renk as its next primate (national archbishop), has been divided in recent years. The split came about after Gabriel Roric Jur, bishop...
Category: May 2008, Sudan: A nation rebuilds, Africa

Sudan appears to be a country in waiting.
Waiting for a crucial census that will clarify for the first time since 1993 the population figures in the north and the semi-autonomous south Sudan.
Category: May 2008, Sudan: A nation rebuilds, Africa

One of the lessons that a delegation of church leaders has learned from a recent visit to Sudan is that after 21 years of civil war, there is “no quick fix” available for Africa’s biggest country, said Rev. Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.
Category: May 2008, Sudan: A nation rebuilds, Africa, World Council of Churches

It is mid-morning on a Sunday in late March. The hot, equatorial sun is already warming up the day and still, an hour before the church service begins, the songs of praise are already rising above the enormous tree that provides shade to the hundreds of worshippers gathered below.
Category: May 2008, Sudan: A nation rebuilds, Africa

Rumbek, Sudan – It is mid-morning on a Sunday in late March. The hot, equatorial sun is already warming up the day and still, an hour before the church service begins, the songs of praise are already rising above the enormous tree that provides shade to the hundreds of worshippers gathered below.
Category: News Update, World, World Council of Churches, Africa
Churches in Kenya have apologized for their failure to confront in a unified manner the election crisis that erupted in late December, and they have urged politicians and others involved in Kenyan society also to seek forgiveness.
Category: April 2008, Africa

An Anglican bishop who chairs the National Council of Churches in Kenya said parliamentary discussion offers a chance to end the political crisis following the bloody unrest after elections at the end of 2007.
Category: March 2008, Africa, World Council of Churches