by Bill Clemmer | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
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...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jul 19, 2011 | News
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,...
by Robert Parham | Jul 13, 2011 | Opinion
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...
by Laura Seay | Apr 4, 2011 | Opinion
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...