A Village of Peace for Sudan
Jason Byassee Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Sometimes in the Christian journey you meet someone who makes you think the whole thing might be true: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the world God loves and the church through which he is saving it.
I met such a man recently in Paride Taban, a retired Catholic bishop from Torit in the south of Sudan. Taban was at Duke Divinity School's Center for Reconciliation, speaking at the Teaching Communities Week event. Taban's accomplishments are many, including having helped establish peace in southern Sudan's on-again, off-again civil war. He stood up for his people, telling the pope as he went to meet with a government official that the hand he was to shake "drips with the blood of your Christians." He even earned the begrudging respect of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir, who called him "a stubborn and mad man" yet conceded that "he prayed very well for me."
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