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  • A woman weeps as she tells how her village was attacked by government-aligned militias in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, holds a small child in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • Brother Antonio Nunes Ferreira, a Comboni missionary nurse who teaches at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan, talks with a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau as two CHTI nursing students look on. <br />
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Nunes is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups training teachers, medical personnel, and pastoral workers in the world's newest country. Solidarity sponsors CHTI.
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  • Catholics in Southern Sudan participate in a procession through the streets of Juba on November 20 to pray for a peaceful January 2011 referendum on secession from the north of the country. The independence vote has widespread support throughout Southern Sudan, including among Christians. The banner refers to a church-sponsored ecumenical campaign of 101 days of prayer for a peaceful referendum. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, walks through a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, inspects fruit crops on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
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  • Constance Langoya, a trauma healer, helps a man touch his face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Participants in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Members of the Christ the King Catholic parish in Malakal, Southern Sudan, sing and dance during Mass on November 21, 2010. On the left is Msgr. Roko Taban Mousa, the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Malakal. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Simon Peter Gamana (right) and Charles Gorden patrol the forest near their village of Riimenze, in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State, on the look out for the Lord's Resistance Army, which has displaced tens of thousands in recent months along the border area. Many believe the northern Sudan government is behind the attacks in its desire to destabilize the south in the period leading to a January 2011 referendum on secession. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Six-year old Madelia Vutuyo shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Sister Maria Fe Parcero Divino, a Filipina member of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, is a teacher and administrator at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. Here she checks on a young patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau.<br />
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The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Sister Maria Fe is a member.
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  • Constance Langoya, a trauma healer, helps a man during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Sister Dorothy Dickson, a member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, talks with a patient as student nurse Augustine Okello looks on in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Dickson is director of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, where Okello is a student. The Institute, which trains nurses and midwives for a country where they are in short supply, is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
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  • A displaced woman weaves grass into roofing material in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • Sister Felistus Kasyoka Mbisi, a Kenyan member of Our Lady of the Missions, visits with women and their children who are waiting to be seen at a clinic in the Hai Bezia Jedid neighborhood of Wau, South Sudan. Sister Felistus is a tutor at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, which uses the clinic as a training center for student nurses. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan..
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  • Holding her baby, Victoria John Toro displays the card she received after registering to vote on November 15, the first day of a 17-day registration period in preparation for the January 2011 referendum in Southern Sudan on secession from the north of the country. Toro registered to vote at a registration center located in a Catholic school in Yambio, in Western Equatoria State. Her index finger is stained at the end, the result of dipping it in ink, one measure designed to eliminate fraud. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • The remains of a partially-destroyed house in Mijak, a village in the contested Abyei region from which residents fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • A displaced young woman prays in the makeshift Catholic chapel in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • Sister Dorothy Dickson (right), a member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, observes as Martha Borete examines Yar Aping at a prenatal clinic in Wau, South Sudan. Dickson, from New Zealand, is director of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, where Borete studies midwifery. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-wau-cthi-05...jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, picks fruit in a community garden she supervises in Riimenze, a small village in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan. Sister Rosa is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-riimenze-07.jpg
  • Holding her baby as she finishes the process of registering to vote, Victoria John Toro dips her finger in ink to prevent fraud as citizens of Southern Sudan lined up on November 15, the first day of a 17-day registration period in preparation for the January 2011 referendum on secession from the north of the country. Toro registered to vote at a registration center located in a Catholic school in Yambio, in Western Equatoria State. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A boy relishes rain water in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017 as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Murigi, originally from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish, which has been overwhelmed with the displaced families. <br />
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Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation. Solidarity and Caritas Austria have both supported efforts by the diocese to ensure that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • Bewen Yuot, a Dinka woman who was displaced by fighting near her home in Bentieu, South Sudan, today lives with relatives in Ajuong Thok, on the edge of a camp filled with thousands of refugees from Sudan's Nuba Mountains.
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  • A cattle keeper holds an assault rifle in Mogok, South Sudan. Cattle raiding between neighboring tribes has long been a tradition in South Sudan, but the acquisition of high-powered weapons has turned the practice into a blood sport, and politicians and warlords have enlisted the armed cattle keepers as allies in acquiring and maintaining territory.
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  • Boys roll bicycle wheels through a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
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  • Sarasia Emilio Anisie shows her new registration card and a finger she dipped in ink as she finishes the registration process to vote in in the January 2011 referendum on whether Southern Sudan will secede from the north of the country. In the Kopoita neighborhood of Nzara, in Western Equatoria State, this registration center was established for people who've been internally displaced by attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army. The vote on the referendum was over 98 percent in favor of independence. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Mayar Angelo Deng does his student teaching at St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan, while studying at the Solidarity Teacher Training College.
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  • A woman throws a stone used to repair a road near the Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The women gather stones and place them on the road surface to make it more usable in wet weather.<br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Constructing and maintaining good roads encourages movement and freer interchange between people of different tribes.
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  • Two religious sisters walk during a retreat at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. The center is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.<br />
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On the right is Sister Rosa Anthony, a member of the Sisters of Charity, and on the left is Sister Jane Ngamita, a Sacred Heart Sister.
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  • A woman displaced by armed conflict during Mass in the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, South Sudan. With thousands of other displaced, she lives in a camp that has formed around the parish church.
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  • A cattle keeper holds an assault rifle in Mogok, South Sudan. Cattle raiding between neighboring tribes has long been a tradition in South Sudan, but the acquisition of high-powered weapons has turned the practice into a blood sport, and politicians and warlords have enlisted the armed cattle keepers as allies in acquiring and maintaining territory.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-mogok-misc-...JPG
  • Victor Hume, a graduate of the Solidarity Teacher Training College (STTC) in Yambio, South Sudan, sings a song with his students in the Catholic Church-sponsored Abangite Nursery School in Yambio. The STTC is run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic groups working to train teachers, health workers and pastoral agents throughout the African country.
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  • Elizabeth Ryan, a Catholic nun from Ireland, trains teachers in Malakal, Southern Sudan. A sister of the Faithful Companions of Jesus and a member of the Malakal team of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, Ryan is here checking the classroom on one of her student teachers. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Workers drill for water as part of a Catholic Church-sponsored project to bring life back to Marail Achak, a village in the disputed Abyei region on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. The families living here fled south in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. In Marail Achak, where residents have begun to return despite the absence of U.N. troop patrols or other international support, the church paid for this well to be drilled so returnees could have safe drinking water for themselves and their animals. The wells they had used in years past were destroyed by the northerners before they withdrew.
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  • David Mabil, a midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, performs a prenatal exam of Amelia John in the Wau Teaching Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.<br />
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The CHTI trains nurses and midwives, and is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Roseline Edwards Anthony, a midwife, holds Noor, one of Alek Kual's newborn twin boys, in the maternity ward of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. Noor's brother is named Chan. <br />
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Anthony is a graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
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  • Six-year old Mary Saburu shows the numbers she has written on a chalk tablet in her kindergarten class in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The village's kindergarten program is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, jumps over a ditch as he walks inside the Protection of Civilians area inside the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. <br />
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Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.            <br />
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Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholics supporting the new country, lives in the camp.
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  • Two men shake hands on the bridge in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State where the Catholic Church has established the Holy Trinity Peace Village.<br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. The bridge was constructed to facilitate better communication between different ethnic communities.
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  • Children walking in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic Church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Ashara Shela, 10, cares for cattle in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, visits with a family inside the Protection of Civilians area inside the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.     <br />
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Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholics supporting the new country, lives in the camp.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-malakal-001.jpg
  • Two-year old Jennifer Angel enjoys the last of her family's meal in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • John Simba, a member of an ACT Alliance team, searches for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • A woman carries the Bible into a Catholic Mass in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • Josephine Murigi, a sister of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, walks with children who are students in a preschool she directs in Riimenze, a village in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State. Murigi, from Kenya, also provides pastoral accompaniment in the Riimenze parish. Solidarity with South Sudan is an international network of Catholic groups that provides training in South Sudan to teachers and health workers, as well as offering pastoral accompaniment to the people of the world's newest nation.
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  • Nyachingowk Laa (right) teaches in the Bander Boys School, a government-run primary school in Malakal, Southern Sudan. Laa is learning better English and teaching techniques from a training program sponsored by Solidarity with Southern Sudan. Irish Sister Elizabeth Ryan, FCJ (left), supervises Laa's work. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Two cattle keepers carry assault rifles in Mogok, South Sudan. Cattle raiding between neighboring tribes has long been a tradition in South Sudan, but the acquisition of high-powered weapons has turned the practice into a blood sport, and politicians and warlords have enlisted the armed cattle keepers as allies in acquiring and maintaining territory.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-mogok-misc-...JPG
  • A young woman leads a Roman Catholic catechism class in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-121.jpg
  • Brother Sylvanus-Aniebiet Victor Okon, a Marist brother from Nigeria, dances with students in the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, where they regularly share dances from their own tribal traditions with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. Brother Sylvanus is an instructor in the school.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, dances with members of a youth dance group of the Catholic Church inside the Protection of Civilians area in the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. <br />
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Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.            <br />
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Bassano, also a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholics supporting the new country, lives in the camp.
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  • Women hold a sign at a church-sponsored women's peace rally in Juba, South Sudan.
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  • A family puts the tent fabric on a structure they built in a camp for almost 500 internally displaced people located at the St. Vincent de Paul Catholic parish on the edge of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. The families here fled fighting that broke out in December 2013. More than 700,000 people have been internally displaced in the first three months.
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  • Members of the Christ the King Catholic parish in Malakal, Southern Sudan, sing and dance during Mass on November 21, 2010. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Youth dance during an outdoor Mass in Christ the King Catholic parish in Malakal, Southern Sudan, on November 21, 2010. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Gumbo Paul builds the framework for his family's tent in a camp for almost 500 internally displaced people located at the St. Vincent de Paul Catholic parish on the edge of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. The families here fled fighting that broke out in December 2013. Paul, along with his wife and five children, came to Juba from Bentieu. More than 700,000 people have been internally displaced in the first three months.
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  • Akuch Kon eats wild leaves in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, Kon and the others set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. It is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • A boy pulls on a mango in Mundri, South Sudan.
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  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, greets people during mass in a makeshift chapel inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, and renewed fighting in 2015 drove an additional 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
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  • A boy sits in an emergency food rations box in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • Everlyn Angaika participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Mary Achol supervises a water point inside the Protection of Civilians area in the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. Residents of the area can line up and fill their containers with water during certain hours of the day. Mary Achol maintains order and hygiene at the faucets.<br />
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Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.
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  • Children pray and sing during a nighttime prayer vigil for peace in Nakubuse, a small village near Kuron in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • A cattle keeper carries an AK-47 as he escorts his cows in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State where the Catholic Church has established the Holy Trinity Peace Village.<br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Cattle remain the principal way to accumulate capital and are frequently a source of conflict.
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  • Regina Bangireago, in the red scrubs, delivers a baby at the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She's a third-year midwifery student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. On her right is Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the CHTI. On Regina's left is Veronica Juma, a traditional birth attendant at the hospital. <br />
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Bangireago has to conduct a minimum of 50 deliveries before she can graduate.
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  • Everlyn Angaika participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence to learn body-based practices that empower people to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • A woman throws a stone used to repair a road near the Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. The women gather stones and place them on the road surface to make it more usable in wet weather.<br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Constructing and maintaining good roads encourages movement and freer interchange between people of different tribes.
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  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions and a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, demonstrates therapeutic massage on Josephine Hanari, a pregnant woman in Riimenze, in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State. Looking on are the sister's apprentices, John Sanday (left) and Mangesto Arjangelo Santo. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A cattle keeper amid his cows in Mogok, South Sudan.
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  • Sister Esperance Bamiriyo (center), a Congolese member of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, is a teacher and administrator at the Catholic Health Training Institute, in Wau, South Sudan. Here she visits a young patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau.<br />
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The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan, of which Bamiriyo is a member.
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  • Monika Nowicka, a midwife from Poland who is a lay missionary with the Society for African Missions and a clinical tutor for the Catholic Health Training Institute, holds a newborn boy in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. The CHTI is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Women pray during Sunday Mass at the Catholic Church inside the Protection of Civilians area in the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. <br />
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Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.
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  • A woman cooks food for her family in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, South Sudan. The parish has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of the local priest and a group of religious has contributed to a sense of relative safety.
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  • A displaced girl behind barbed wire inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including this woman, into the relative safety of the camp.
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  • A boy peddles greens in Gumbo, a neighborhood of Juba, South Sudan.
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  • A boy runs through a puddle on his way to the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
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  • A girl fills a container with muddy water in the Ajuong Thok Refugee Camp in South Sudan. The camp, in northern Unity State, hosts thousands of refugees from the Nuba Mountains, located across the nearby border with Sudan.
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  • A woman helps a man tap his head as they participate in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Students in the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, share dances from their own tribal traditions with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
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  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, helps Katherine Chimoteo, a woman in Riimenze, South Sudan, who says she is "about 70", try on eyeglasses so that she can read for the first time in several years. The nun is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • The remains of a looted house in Mijak, a village in the contested Abyei region from which residents fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • Citizens of Southern Sudan lined up to register to vote in the January 2011 referendum on secession from the north of the country. In the Kopoita neighborhood of Nzara, in Western Equatoria State, this registration center was established for people who've been internally displaced by attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Members of the Christ the King Catholic parish in Malakal, Southern Sudan, sing and dance during Mass on November 21, 2010. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Sister Felistus Kasyoka Mbisi, a Kenyan member of Our Lady of the Missions, visits with women and their children who are waiting to be seen at a clinic in the Hai Bezia Jedid neighborhood of Wau, South Sudan. Sister Felistus is a tutor at the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, which uses the clinic as a training center for student nurses. Health care is minimal in the newly independent country, and many religious groups are providing personnel and training to fill the gap. The Institute is coordinated by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international consortium of more than 200 religious congregations that trains teachers, health workers and pastoral personnel in several locations throughout South Sudan..
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  • Akuch Kon eats wild leaves in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, Kon and the others set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. It is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • Eight-year old Adieu Anai cooks over a fire in a camp for more than 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau. <br />
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  • Nurse Nacima Keni examines a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Keni is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Ashara Shela, 10, cares for cattle in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan.
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  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, says goodbye to people in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan where she spent more than a decade as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food.
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  • A health care worker from the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Center listens to a patient during a remote clinic for villagers in Maker Kuei, South Sudan. Sponsored by the Loreto schools located nearby, the center takes health care on the road, assuring access to quality care for all.  <br />
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Mary Ward was a 17th Century English nun who founded the Sisters of Loreto.
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  • Children pray during the morning assembly at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
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  • A woman carries water on her head inside a United Nations base in Juba, South Sudan, where some 34,000 people have sought protection since violence broke out in December 2013. More than 112,000 people currently live on UN bases in the war-torn country, most of them afraid of tribally targeted violence.
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  • A mother and two of her children wake up after sleeping in the open in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Nurse Magdalene Ali takes the blood pressure of a patient at night in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. Ali is a graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, a project of Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • A weaver bird works on his nest inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan.<br />
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In addition to birds, some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.
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  • A girl holds a sign at a church-sponsored women's peace rally in Juba, South Sudan.
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