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October 20, 2013

Displaced by violence: the people of South Sudan need our help

Posted 9:56am

From Presbyterian World Mission Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Presbyterian World Mission are compelled to help more than 90,000 displaced people, mostly Murle, in South Sudan who fled inter-ethnic conflict and gross human rights violations by the South Sudanese military. Our goal is to provide food, emergency supplies, trauma recovery and peace building support. We are… Read more »

July 23, 2013

Prayers for South Sudan

Posted 9:14pm

from our partners in World Mission South Sudan greatly needs our prayers during this extremely tense time. Please keep our South Sudanese partners and Nancy McGaughey who is in Juba ministering with the displaced Murle community in your prayers. All of our other mission co-workers are out of South Sudan just now. Debbie Blane is … Read more »

March 13, 2012

South Sudan: UN mission responds to new outbreak of violence in Jonglei state

Posted 7:25pm

Hold the people of South Sudan – particularly the people living in Jonglei state – in prayer. They again face violence.

Statement by Presbyterian Church of Sudan on violence in Jonglei State

Posted 10:26am

Our partners in the Presbyterian Church of Sudan have issued the following statement regarding the violence happening in Jonglei State of South Sudan: It is bad news that PCOS Congregations such as Lou Nuer and Murle are killing themselves all the time through cattle raiding. This situation in Jonglei State displeases the Head office of… Read more »

June 25, 2011

Pray for peace in Jonglei

Posted 3:17pm

Jonglei State in southern Sudan is among the regions where violence is taking place. In this instance, much of the violence is situated in Pibor County. The conflict involves people of the Murle and Lou Nuer ethnic groups. Cattle raiding and the abduction of children and women are part of the violence. There have been… Read more »

May 8, 2011

Pray for an end to violence in Pibor and Akobo counties, southern Sudan

Posted 9:52pm

Pray for the people of Pibor and Akobo counties in southern Sudan. Violence has been reported between the Nuer and Murle peoples. An atmosphere of fear and deep uncertainty pervades the people. Pray for peace to prevail, for a turn…

Now brothers and sisters

Posted 12:19am

“They are now brothers and sisters, and now death amongst us shall stop.” That’s the promise made by Nuer women and Murle women in South Sudan who worked with RECONCILE International – a promise all the more amazing because of…

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