Catholic Church in South Sudan

[13] In the early 20th century, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium government encouraged missionary organizations to start schools in southern Sudan.

In 1905, Catholics opened Stack Memorial School as a mission station and to prepare children of chiefs to work for the colonial government.

[17] Comboni technical schools in [Bahr el Ghazal] had boys learning carpentry, bricklaying and gardening.

[26] On March 1, 1956, the newspaper caught the attention of the Sudanese Government when following the Torit Mutiny, a regional revolt, an article entitled “They Died A Good Death” framed some perpetrators, who were later executed, as martyrs.

[27] In 1957, General Ibrahim Abboud, the political leader of Sudan, nationalized missionary schools in the South and subsidized Muslim educational institutions and mosques in a process of Islamification.

[29] Documents that mentioned the government’s persecution of Christianity continued to be produced by priests and those educated in Catholic schools throughout the 1960s.

[30] One from Sudanese Catholic leaders in October 1965 expressed feelings that the policies that restricted the Church were works of the devil.

[31] During the civil war, letters between priests asked for God’s help in defeating the Arabs and contributed some developments to religious intervention.

[32] Many figures in the Southern political life, including separatist MP Saturnino Lohure,[33] Ireneo Dud, Archangel Ali,[34] and Angelo Tutuo were priests.

Angelo Tutuo resigned from the priesthood by 1955 though, citing unfair treatment from the Verona Fathers, including with issues of celibacy.

The goal of the center was to assist in reconstructing the area, put medical infrastructure into place and make possible the training of nurses and doctors.

[38] The Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) made the infrastructure unusable; however it reopened in February 2010 under the name Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI).

While fighting between the Dinka and Nuer tribe was ongoing in the South Sudanese Civil War, Loro claimed that politicians were forgetting they were serving the same country in his Easter mass in 2014 while many government officials, including Kiir were in attendance.

[45] This organization created the “Action Plan for Peace”, a church-led strategy to address causes and effects of the current civil war.

James Wani Igga, the vice president of South Sudan accused priests of promoting violence in April 2018.

[47] The South Sudanese Bishops released a pastoral letter following their February 26–28, 2019 Juba meeting, indicating their belief that the peace deal would not last.