By Matthew Davies/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] As part of the pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (ECS) are visiting the Church of England’s Diocese of Salisbury and participating in the life and ministry of the city’s historic cathedral in its 750th…
By Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson have issued a joint statement calling for prayer and action for the people of Sudan following a new wave of violence in Abyei that “has threatened the resumption of widespread conflict in…
By Joe Bjordal/ Episcopal Life Media [Episcopal News Service] “We need you now more than ever,” was the message of Sudan’s recently enthroned Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul to the fourth annual conference of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS), meeting in Chicago May 30 to June 1. The conference participants came…
By Mark Bixler Bruce and Carol Rinehart raised several thousand dollars recently to help build schools in southern Sudan, deepening an involvement that began when they agreed five years ago to mentor Sudanese refugees they met at their parish in Denver. Yet the couple soon discovered that sending money to Sudan is no easy task…
By David Chanoff/Boston Globe By now many people know of the Lost Boys, the refugee children from Sudan’s civil war who trekked from southern Sudan to Ethiopia, then back to Sudan and to Kenya. When the survivors of this exodus were admitted to the United States last year, it was an event unique in the…
