Photo: CNS War in South Sudan has robbed young people of their childhood and given them challenges unknown to their peers in most other countries, said the head of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
“My heart breaks at the thought that your childhoods are being taken away from you daily, but I know that you have not lost your vision or your hope for a better future,” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, said in a statement to mark International Day for Peace.
The bishops’ conference includes all dioceses in Sudan and South Sudan. The war has killed thousands, displaced nearly 1 million people, ignited a man-made famine and destroyed the country’s economy.