Macram Max Gassis, who was the bishop of the Catholic diocese of El Obeid from 1988 to 2013, was a tireless campaigner for the rights of Christians in Muslim-majority Sudan. He was also a member of the Advisory Council of Christian Solidarity International (CSI). Bishop Macram was a fearless opponent of the Islamist revival of… Read more »
The Nuba Christians in the state of South Kordofan in the south of Sudan are under attack from the Islamist-dominatedgovernment in Khartoum. They also have to contend with food shortages caused by flooding. CSI project manager Franco Majok visited the area in February and spoke with members of the community. Mary Albasha Koko has experienced… Read more »
With the prospect of famine looming over South Sudan, CSI project manager Franco Majok coordinated a major food aid operation in July. In total, CSI distributed over 200 tons of sorghum. The Covid 19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have caused food prices to rise around the world. In South Sudan, the price of… Read more »
The inhabitants of two Christian villages in South Sudan are in urgent need of help as they try to rebuild their lives following a devastating attack by Arab raiders in which they lost their homes and possessions. On January 4, 2022, attackers on horses crossed the border from Sudan and set about destroying the villages… Read more »
Amiir Akok Akok, now 24 years old, was enslaved with her mother in Sudan when she was one year old and later forcibly separated from her. After her liberation and return home to South Sudan, Amiir has been joyfully reunited with her mother again. The story of the reunion of the two women after 16… Read more »
Clutching her baby against her breast, panic-stricken Akon Nguet gathered her other children and rushed out of their hut at dawn to hide in the bush. Within minutes, her home was ablaze. Arab Islamist militiamen on horseback and three-wheel motorbikes had launched an attack against her predominately Christian Black African village in South Sudan. On… Read more »
In the final slave liberation action organized by Christian Solidarity International (CSI) in 2021, 300 South Sudanese returned home after years spent in bondage in Sudan. Of the 300 slaves freed in the operation led by CSI project manager Franco Majok, 150 returned to their home villages in Aweil North County and 150 went back… Read more »
Every year Christian Solidarity International (CSI) frees 1,500 people from slavery in Sudan and helps them begin a new life in their home village of South Sudan. CSI project manager Franco Majok travels to South Sudan to oversee five slave liberation actions a year. We caught up with him during a stopover in Switzerland and asked him… Read more »
Christian Solidarity International has returned 300 former slaves to South Sudan in the third slave liberation action of 2021. From August 7 to 8, 192 women and 108 men who had been enslaved in the north – in some cases for more than 30 years – were accompanied back to their former homes in Aweil… Read more »
Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has distributed essential foodstuffs and farming equipment to thousands of families in South Sudan in an effort to prevent widescale hunger. In the second half of June, a CSI team spent six days distributing grain, ground nuts and hoes in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal State on the border with Sudan. A separate… Read more »
