New Archbishop urged to help unify Sudan

Tuesday, 29th April 2008
George Conger

THE PRESIDENT of Southern Sudan has challenged the new Primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul of Juba, to help his government unify the country in the wake of the decades-old civil war with the Islamist government in Khartoum.

In a speech delivered at the enthronement ceremony on April 20 at All Saints Cathedral in Juba, President Salva Kiir Mayardit (pictured) called upon the church to embark on a campaign of school and hospital building, and to help the government establish social services for the war-torn country.

The former leader of the military wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), who also serves as Vice-President of the Sudan, President Kiir also urged the church to back plans for the first comprehensive census of the Sudan since Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule. the rest