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Sudan Bishop Says Church Is Growing But Challenges Remain
Posted by Voice of America on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:03 AM (PST)
The Bishop of the Anglican Catholic Diocese of Aweil, Sudan, is in the United States to attend a provincial synod of the Anglican Catholic Church in Richmond Virginia. Bishop Wilson Garang who oversees more than 180 churches in Southern Sudan is also here to raise awareness about the plight of the people in Southern Sudan.
Garang was a refugee and part of the “Lost Boys,” a group of thousands of Sudanese children orphaned by the country’s civil war in the 1980s. He ended up living in refugee camps in Ethiopia where he was converted, and became a Christian.
He told VOA from Athens, Georgia that he will use his stay in the USA to talk about the plight and conditions of the people in Southern Sudan. Southern Sudan is not in the news, he said, “it is only Darfur that people are talking about but the war in the south [of Sudan] lasted a long time.”
Bishop Garang said there is a good relationship between the church and the government of Southern Sudan. “There is freedom of worship.”
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