Tag: Peacebuilding
Nun in Uganda Helps Former Child Soldiers and Sex Slaves Heal
November 26, 2012
From The Tidings Online, Southern California’s Catholic Weekly, comes a story about Sister Pauline, who works in Catholic Relief Services’ office in Gulu, Uganda. CRS Uganda has been working for many years with war-affected communities in the north. Sister Pauline has driven our conflict resolution and peacebuilding efforts, and has worked with partners to reintegrate children [...]
South Sudan's Independence, Transcript from Live Chat
July 12, 2012
In commemoration of South Sudan’s one-year independence anniversary this week, CRS and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops held a live web chat yesterday with four CRS experts on South Sudan, including two staff who currently live and work in Juba, South Sudan. If you missed the chat, you can read the full transcript for [...]
Update on Conflict in Sudan, South Sudan
April 30, 2012
Sean Callahan, CRS’ executive vice president for overseas operations, recently returned from a trip to South Sudan and shares his insights on the escalating conflict in the region in an interview with Currents, a news program on the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Net TV. Also, this week’s issue of America has an update on Sudan [...]
CRS in The Lancet on South Sudan Health Care
April 27, 2012
The prestigious medical journal The Lancet features an article on the challenges facing the health care system in the new nation of South Sudan as it deals with hostilities with Sudan, the country that until recently it was a part of. Writer Andrew Green quotes CRS’ South Sudan health program manager Aimee Lyons on the [...]
Your Prayers are Urgently Needed for Sudan
April 24, 2012
Your prayers are needed for peace in Sudan and South Sudan! South Sudan became the world’s newest nation after a referendum that was, against all odds, peaceful and orderly. It is a testimony to the power of prayer and the will of people who insisted that a peaceful future is possible for this war-torn region. [...]
Catholics Ask World Leaders to Help Determine Sudan-South Sudan Border
April 18, 2012
From the Catholic News Service, via U.S. Catholic: WASHINGTON (CNS) — Saying civilian lives are at risk, Catholic leaders appealed to the international community to step up efforts to prevent full-scale war from erupting over disputed territory along the tenuous Sudan-South Sudan border. Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Adwok Kur of Khartoum, Sudan, said in an email [...]
Vatican Radio Interviews CRS on South Sudan Violence
March 16, 2012
With hundreds killed this week in fresh ethnic violence in South Sudan what is the situation like in the world’s newest independent nation? The U.N. says some 350,000 people were displaced because of intercommunal violence in South Sudan last year, an impoverished country which is awash with small arms following decades of conflict . Sean [...]
The CRS Take on Kony 2012, Part 2
March 14, 2012
In the past week, there has been a viral web reaction to the Kony 2012 video and its campaign to stop the violence of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistence Army. In response to questions on how Catholics should respond, we offer these thoughts: The video calls for Kony to be captured and brought to [...]
Kony 2012 and Your Teens
March 14, 2012
Given all the interest in Kony 2012, we wanted to point out a great blog post on Catholic Youth Ministry.com and what the phenomenon teaches us about how to engage our youth:
Kony 2012: Video Interview with Sr. Pauline Acayo, Healer of Ugandan Child Soldiers
March 13, 2012
Here is a 2008 interview with Sr. Pauline Acayo, a member of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate in Gulu, Uganda and a peacebuilder with Catholic Relief Services who has helped to reintegrate into the community over 5,000 child soldiers and 2,500 other people who had been abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). [...]