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South Sudan bishop urges peace, condemns attack on nuns

Thursday, January 7, 2016 13:20

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Bronwen Dachs | Catholic News Service

Sister Sandra Amado, a Comboni sister from Brazil, taught a class in 2012 at a teacher training institute in Yambio, South Sudan. A late-December attack on religious sisters at the training institute in South Sudan has shaken and saddened the Church, a Church leader said.

YAMBIO, South Sudan — An attack on religious sisters at a teacher training college in South Sudan has shaken and saddened the Church, a Church leader said, while urging people of faith to demand the implementation of the latest peace accord to end the civil war.

Violence and fear-mongering seem “rampant in both Church and society” in the northeast African country, said Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio.

Source: http://stlouisreview.com/article/2016-01-06/south-sudan-bishop

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