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Caring for Orphans

VIDEO: For the past three years AFRECS has worked closely with Bishop John Gattek and the Diocese of Bentiu to support orphans and unaccompanied children at a camp near Juba. One hundred and fifty boys and girls, each having lost at least one parent in the civil war, are now part of a school where they can find healing and hope. AFRECS’ support provides a tangible ministry to the children through education, a steady diet, and clothing. Click here to learn more.

SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN – DISPATCHES

 

E-Blasts

  • Tale of Two Translations
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia rejoiced to learn that 300 copies of a new translation of the Bible – decades in the making — into the Dinka Cam language were received by Bishop Simon Chuang at St. Mathew’s Cathedral in Renk, South Sudan. […]
  • Like Father, Like Son – Two Abudigins, in El-Fasher and in El-Obeid
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    Food is scarce in El-Obeid, a city of 500,000 people in the dusty central Sudan region of Kordofan, but bank transfers of donated US dollars allowed Gabriel Ismail Abugidin, the senior bishop in the Episcopal Church of Sudan, to deliver modest amounts of foodstuffs and cash in June to needy households through the parishioners of his one continuing congregation. […]
  • El-Obeid Under Siege: Pray and Write
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    Food is scarce in El-Obeid, a city of 500,000 people in the dusty central Sudan region of Kordofan, but bank transfers of donated US dollars allowed Gabriel Ismail Abugidin, the senior bishop in the Episcopal Church of Sudan, to deliver modest amounts of foodstuffs and cash in June to needy households through the parishioners of his one continuing congregation. […]
  • Director’s Update – July 2026
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    The catastrophe in Sudan has been getting attention from the media, but unfortunately not much from international policy makers.  […]
  • Easter Among the Diaspora
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    Dr. Edward Eremugo Kenyi reports from Baltimore, Maryland: “Again this year we celebrated at St. Matthew Catholic Church, 5401 Loch Raven Boulevard. The event was well attended, with over 120 participants from Northern Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, and even Pennsylvania, including women and children.” […]
  • Sunday Morning Under the Mango Trees
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    Sunday morning February 8, 2026, we drove further north for about forty-five minutes, left the road, crossed a wide, sandy wadi, and arrived at a grove of massive mango trees. […]
  • May 16th Feast of The Martyrs of Sudan
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    O God, by your providence the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church; as the martyrs of the Sudan refused to abandon Christ even in the face of torture and death, and by their sacrifice brought forth a plentiful harvest, so may we be steadfast in our faith in Jesus Christ; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. […]
  • Durable Bishop Laid to Rest in Bor
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    Following his death in Nairobi in April, the South Sudan armed forces transported the body of Bishop Nathaniel Garang Anyieth to Juba to lie in state at All Saints Cathedral in Juba, […]
  • Workaround: South Sudan and Virginia Converge in the U.K.
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    Our covenant with the Diocese of Ezo had held good for more than a quarter of a century — through wars, independence for South Sudan, and the tenure of several bishops — until in 2025 the United States imposed a travel ban on visitors from South Sudan, torpedoing our invitation to the Rt. Rev. Isaac Ephraim J. Bangisa, current bishop of Ezo, to visit our parish in Great Falls, Virginia. We needed a workaround. […]
  • Director’s Update – May 2026
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    As we celebrate May 16 the Feast of the Martyrs of Sudan, it is fitting to remember the toll taken by the civil war in Sudan, which has entered its fourth year. […]

Newsletters

  • Sudan Connections, Volume 13, No. 1, Summer 2019
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2018
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 11, No. 1, Fall 2016
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 10, No. 1, Fall 2015
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 9, No. 1, Fall 2014
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 8, No. 1, Winter 2013
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 7, No. 1, Summer 2012
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 6, No. 3, Summer 2011
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 6, No. 2, Spring 2011
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 6, No. 1, Winter 2011
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 5, No. 2, Fall 2010
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2010
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 4, No. 3, Fall 2009
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2009
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 4, No. 1, Winter 2009
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 3, No. 2, Summer 2008
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 3, No.1, Spring 2008
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 2, No. 4, Fall 2007
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 2 No. 3, Summer 2007
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 2 No. 2, Winter 2007
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 1 No. 2, Winter 2006