by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 8, 2017 | News
Edward Dima is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Kajo-Keji in South Sudan, president of the Baptist Convention of South Sudan, principal of North East Africa Theological Seminary South Sudan, chairman of the evangelical churches in Kajo-Keji and a church...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 28, 2017 | News
Baptist and Catholic leaders have addressed the United Nations’ Feb. 20 formal declaration of famine in South Sudan. The South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat issued a pastoral letter on Feb. 23 emphasizing that the ongoing civil war, which has...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 16, 2017 | News
Baptists in South Sudan are ministering to refugees and internally displaced persons amid increasing violence in the African nation. The civil war, begun in 2013, has caused 1.5 million to flee to neighboring countries and displaced 2.1 million, according to U.N....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 20, 2016 | News
First Baptist Church in Kajo Keji, South Sudan, is struggling to find sufficient supplies to help the more than 200 internally displaced persons (IDPs) it is hosting. Edward Dima, pastor of the congregation, told EthicsDaily.com that “there is no food … no...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 14, 2016 | News
Lower rainfall totals, poor harvests, soaring food prices and an economic downturn, coupled with ongoing conflict, have created record levels of food insecurity in South Sudan, according to a U.N. World Food Programme report. Nearly half of the nation’s 11.8...
