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In South Sudan around a quarter of the 8.26 million population is Roman Catholic. This is higher ratio than Africa as a whole, where only 16 percent are Catholic.
- Friday 15 February 2013
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- Wednesday 6 October 2010
ACN News: Tuesday, 5th October 2010 – SUDAN
‘I am coming to ring the alarm bell about Sudan’
Bishop gives stark message as he prepares for UK trip
By John Pontifex
ON the eve of a landmark visit to the UK, a bishop from one of Sudan’s (...)
- Saturday 9 February 2013
By Julius N. Uma
February 8, 2013 (JUBA) – When Bishop Emeritus Paride Taban started his Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state in 1999, little did he know it would bare fruits several years later. (...)
- Thursday 14 October 2010
By Manyang Mayom
October 11, 2010 (JUBA) – Thousands of members of the Catholic community in Lakes state celebrated the St. Daniel Comboni Day in Rumbek, the capital of Lakes state on Sunday.
The day was also celebrated in Catholic (...)
- Tuesday 10 July 2012
CAFOD / CHRISTIAN AID
SUDANESE RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR PEACE ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD’S YOUNGEST COUNTRY
July 6, 2012
When the citizens of South Sudan flooded to the polls in January 2011 for the long-awaited independence (...)
- Wednesday 28 March 2012
March 27, 2012 (RUMBEK) - Youth in South Sudan Lakes State have told administrators of the Catholic Church Diocese of Rumbek that they will go on strike and shut down Catholic Radio Goods News if their issues are not addressed. Rumbek (...)
- Sunday 23 September 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
September 20, 2012 (KAMPALA) -The Catholic Comboni missionaires of South Sudan have submitted a petition asking the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC) to campaign for the abolition of the death penalty (...)
- Sunday 30 October 2011
October 29, 2011 (JUBA) — The Catholic Church decided to maintain its old structure covering its activities in the two Sudans after the independence of South Sudan in July 2011.
The decision was announced at the end of the plenary (...)
- Thursday 26 April 2012
April 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese security services shut down two humanitarian groups in the capital of South Darfur Nyala and arrested three aid workers from South Sudan this week.
The offices of SUDAN AID and Sudan Council of (...)
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