South Sudanese from throughout the country and the world came together on July 9 in the capital city of Juba to celebrate the birth of the new nation, the Republic of South Sudan. Independence day comes 6 years after the signing of a peace agreement that ended two decades of civil war between the Arab-dominated…
Crisis & Disaster Response
South Sudanese Staff Released
Samaritan’s Purse is thankful to God for the safe release of our South Sudanese national staff, who had been detained by armed personnel in the Mayendit area of South Sudan. They were all released Tuesday afternoon local time (March 14). There was no ransom request, and the previously detained staff members are now in a…
Our Ministry
Hope for South Sudan
StrengtheningSouth Sudan’s Churches South Sudan Projects 013954 $ Give After many years of persecution, churches in South Sudan are thriving and reaching people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Facebook Twitter email When a South Sudanese congregation found out a struggling widow named Abuk and her four children had been left homeless because of a fire,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
How Samaritan’s Purse is Helping South Sudanese Refugees Find Hope in Uganda
The refugee crisis in Africa continues to grow every day. Increasing violence, conflict, and starvation has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing South Sudan, making it the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. More than 1.6 million South Sudanese, a 10th of the population, are seeking peace and security outside the country. The numbers…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Churches in South Sudan Trained to Help Their Neighbors
Like millions of other South Sudanese, Abuk Athian Wol, 38, has endured terrible hardship. When she was young, a disease left her right leg permanently disabled, her father died in war, and her mother passed away not long afterward. At age 23, Abuk was forced to marry a 52-year-old man who died shortly after she…
Embattled South Sudanese Civilians Find Refuge in Uganda
Chaos currently reigns in South Sudan. The conflict that started in December 2013 between various government officials, and re-erupted in July 2016, has continued to fuel a civil war that has divided the country. Though some of the initial fighting was mainly isolated to a few geographical areas, new regions of the country are increasingly…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Urgent Needs Continue to Be Met in South Sudan Through Samaritan’s Purse
Struggling to breathe, Mohammed was admitted to Maban County Hospital in South Sudan. One evening during his stay, this refugee from Sudan’s Blue Nile region heard amazing news—of Lazarus being raised from the dead and of Jesus dying for our sins and rising from the dead. Mohammed listened intently to the Gospel message shared by…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Hungry Families Rely on Food Distributions in South Sudan
Roda has lived in a refugee camp in South Sudan for eight years and food scarcity is still a burden for this mother of six. No one in Roda’s family is working and her husband left the family about four years ago. She is grateful for the food she receives each month through Samaritan’s Purse…
Health & Medical Ministries
South Sudan: Compassion Prevails in Conflict
As tensions simmer in South Sudan following recent violence in the capital, Dr. Evan Atar knows all too well what it’s like to keep serving in tumultuous war-time conditions. Dr. Atar is the only full-time surgeon in all of Maban County, located in the northeast part of his country. The soft-spoken, yet always-on-the-go physician oversees…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Flying Supplies to South Sudan
Kevin Stratton is a pilot with Missionary Flights International who served with Samaritan’s Purse for a month in Africa. I volunteered to go to Africa to fly immediately after I was told about the opportunity. When my wife and I first felt God’s call into mission aviation, we believed He was calling our family to…
