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Caring for Orphans

VIDEO: For the past three years AFRECS has worked closely with Bishop John Gattek and the Diocese of Bentiu to support orphans and unaccompanied children at a camp near Juba. One hundred and fifty boys and girls, each having lost at least one parent in the civil war, are now part of a school where they can find healing and hope. AFRECS’ support provides a tangible ministry to the children through education, a steady diet, and clothing. Click here to learn more.

SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN – DISPATCHES

 

E-Blasts

  • Midwifery Comes to the Episcopal University
    In E-Blasts, News
    October 26, 2026
    AFRECS has been committed to supporting youth education among South Sudanese internal refugees since 2016 when it was the founding financial partner in establishing a school for up to 500 primary school children in the UN Protection of Civilians (POC) Camp No. 3 near Juba. The POCs were created when ethnic violence three years earlier caused tens of thousands of people, including many unaccompanied children, to flee their villages to the relative safety of refugee camps. […]
  • Franco
    In E-Blasts, News
    October 26, 2026
    A father of five children, Franco Kenyi Enosa went back to school at Bishop Allison Theological College when it returned from Uganda to its hometown of Yei in Central Equatoria in South Sudan. Founded by Bishop Seme Salamona, this college brought home an extensive library and an ethos of self-support. […]
  • “A Bull of a Man”
    In E-Blasts, News
    October 26, 2026
    Not yet memorialized in the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church, the 20-year missionary in Sudan, Marc Nikkel, was remembered again this September in an annual observance at Grace Church, Lexington, in the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. […]
  • Director’s Update – October 2026
    In E-Blasts, News
    October 26, 2026
    One of the few bright spots in the civil war tearing Sudan apart since 2023 is the work of the Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) – informal committees formed throughout much of Sudan to provide food to the starving, medical supplies, and counseling to the traumatized. […]
  • Tale of Two Translations
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia rejoiced to learn that 300 copies of a new translation of the Bible – decades in the making — into the Dinka Cam language were received by Bishop Simon Chuang at St. Mathew’s Cathedral in Renk, South Sudan. […]
  • Like Father, Like Son – Two Abudigins, in El-Fasher and in El-Obeid
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    Food is scarce in El-Obeid, a city of 500,000 people in the dusty central Sudan region of Kordofan, but bank transfers of donated US dollars allowed Gabriel Ismail Abugidin, the senior bishop in the Episcopal Church of Sudan, to deliver modest amounts of foodstuffs and cash in June to needy households through the parishioners of his one continuing congregation. […]
  • El-Obeid Under Siege: Pray and Write
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    Food is scarce in El-Obeid, a city of 500,000 people in the dusty central Sudan region of Kordofan, but bank transfers of donated US dollars allowed Gabriel Ismail Abugidin, the senior bishop in the Episcopal Church of Sudan, to deliver modest amounts of foodstuffs and cash in June to needy households through the parishioners of his one continuing congregation. […]
  • Director’s Update – July 2026
    In E-Blasts, News
    July 13, 2026
    The catastrophe in Sudan has been getting attention from the media, but unfortunately not much from international policy makers.  […]
  • Easter Among the Diaspora
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    Dr. Edward Eremugo Kenyi reports from Baltimore, Maryland: “Again this year we celebrated at St. Matthew Catholic Church, 5401 Loch Raven Boulevard. The event was well attended, with over 120 participants from Northern Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, and even Pennsylvania, including women and children.” […]
  • Sunday Morning Under the Mango Trees
    In E-Blasts, News
    May 12, 2026
    Sunday morning February 8, 2026, we drove further north for about forty-five minutes, left the road, crossed a wide, sandy wadi, and arrived at a grove of massive mango trees. […]

Newsletters

  • Sudan Connections, Volume 13, No. 1, Summer 2019
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2018
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 11, No. 1, Fall 2016
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 10, No. 1, Fall 2015
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 9, No. 1, Fall 2014
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 8, No. 1, Winter 2013
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 7, No. 1, Summer 2012
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 6, No. 3, Summer 2011
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 6, No. 2, Spring 2011
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 6, No. 1, Winter 2011
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 5, No. 2, Fall 2010
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2010
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 4, No. 3, Fall 2009
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2009
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 4, No. 1, Winter 2009
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 3, No. 2, Summer 2008
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 3, No.1, Spring 2008
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 2, No. 4, Fall 2007
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 2 No. 3, Summer 2007
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 2 No. 2, Winter 2007
  • Sudan Connections, Volume 1 No. 2, Winter 2006