Episcopal Archbishop of Sudan stops in St. Louis
By Tim Townsend
STLtoday
05/03/2008
Even though he was raised in a secular family in southern Sudan, Daniel
Deng attended a school in his village run by missionaries, and at 15, he
became a Christian.
Two weeks ago, Deng, now 58 and a grandfather of three, was enthroned as
the fourth archbishop of the Episcopal Church in Sudan, becoming one of
his country's most im****tant Christian leaders.
The challenges facing Deng are huge. After 22 years of civil war (the
country's second since it gained independence from the United Kingdom in
1956) that left 2 million dead, Sudan's government and rebels in the
south signed a peace accord ‹ called the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,
or CPA ‹ in 2005.
Over the last three years, many of the 4 million Sudanese refugees who
fled during the war have begun to trickle back home. But a devastated
infrastructure, poor health care facilities and a desperate need for
food and clean water have made the task of resettling millions of
refugees a priority for aid workers, including Sudan's churches.
Deng is touring the U.S. to get the message out about Sudan's needs, and
to pick up an honorary degree later this month at Virginia Theological
Seminary, where he studied in the 1990s. Since 2006, the Episcopal
Diocese of Missouri has had "a companion relation****p" with Sudan's
Episcopal Diocese of Lui in southern Sudan.
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