Dear Mozlink Readers

My apologies for being out of touch these last days. I have been extremely busy around the visit of a Bishop from the Diocese of El Obeid in the Sudan. His name is Bishop Macram Max Gassis, whose Diocese stradles the center of Sudan. Part of his Diocese is controlled by the Government in Khartoum and part is in the control of the Sudanese Liberation Movement. The Diocese actually also includes the area of Darfur. He has been an outspoken advocate of the human rights of the Nuba people in his Diocese, who suffered unspeakable atrocities during the first war in Sudan some years back. This war ended in 2005 with the signing of a Peace Agreement. The Bishop was visiting Ireland all of last week and his itinerary included talks in Cork and in Dublin as well as interviews for various media outlets. He left Ireland this morning (Fri Oct 26th) So now that I am relieved of this responsibility, I will continue to regularly POST stories of interest from around the world. The photos show the Bishop preaching in one of his bush Churches and Before & After around the precious life giving licquid, water. Below is news from Sudan that I came accross today. The slide show left, at the top of page is a mixture of photos taken during the Bishops visit to Ireland (Oct. 19th - 26th) and photos from his life in Sudan. Mozlink





Church leaders fear another war in south of Sudan Nairobi (ENI).
Sudanese church leaders seeking a peaceful settlement of tensions between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army and the country's governing National Congress Party, fear another war could erupt in the south of Africa's biggest country. "We hope they will find a peaceful solution to the problem. Another war is hard to imagine. The region is tired of war. The people don't want war," the Rev. Anthony Bagoye, the general secretary of the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Regional Conference told Ecumenical News International in Nairobi on 24 October.