by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 8, 2021 | News
Warfare, droughts, famine, widespread hunger, floods, locust swarms and a global pandemic – all of these have been endured by the South Sudanese over the past decade. Amid the turmoil, faith leaders like Edward Dima, pastor of First Baptist Church in Kajo-Keji and...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 21, 2020 | News
With peace elusive and a return home uncertain, South Sudanese Baptist refugees have been meeting the physical and spiritual needs of their fellow refugees. Forced to flee their homeland due to a protracted civil war, Baptist refugees, like Edward Dima, have not been...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | News
Nearly 1,000 days – 951 to be exact. That’s how long it has been since Edward Dima last saw his hometown of Kajo-Keji, South Sudan. At 10 a.m. local time on Jan. 31, 2017, Dima left for Uganda, where he and his family have been living as refugees from the ongoing...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | News
The death toll resulting from the conflict in South Sudan is nearly 400,000, according to a report released on Sept. 26 by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Released nine days after the latest peace agreement was signed, the analysis reviewed...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 17, 2018 | News
A Sept. 12 peace agreement offers hope, tempered by realism, for a formal and final end to the multi-year conflict in South Sudan. The African nation has experienced intermittent conflicts since gaining independence in 2011, with the current war erupting in 2013 due...
