South Sudan Now Fighting Enemy Within

It was less than three years ago when my wife, Ann, and I were in the capital city of Juba, South Sudan, witnessing the birth of a new nation. We could actually feel the excitement of a generation of people, free to establish their own nation. Our work in the coming...

South Sudan’s Churches Focus on Reconciliation

The church has a crucial peace-building role to play in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, according to a Baptist leader there. Rev. Ramadan Chan Liol, general secretary of the Sudan Interior Church, which is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance,...

Survival of South Sudan Hinges on Which Lion Is Fed

Christianity played a constructive role in the birth last weekend of the world’s newest nation – South Sudan. Southern Sudanese voted in a weeklong referendum of self-determination in January 2011 to pursue a course of independence from Sudan, a nation divided...

“Fighting for Darfur” – Why Advocacy Fell Short

As bombs fall over Libya, the U.N. Security Council debates what actions to take – or not take – with regard to the civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. And while those of us with the luxury of distance debate whether what will happen there might constitute...