Yet it is a country that has suffered over 50 years of civil-war. The Republic of South Sudan was formed on July 9, 2011 after a long proglonged conflict between the Muslim North (now Sudan), and Christian/Animist South (now South Sudan). There is officially peace right now, however, there are still border skirmishes, and there is the fear that war will break at anytime due to hostility, oil and land disputes.
South Sudan has also struggled with unifying the various people groups within its borders. There has been conflicts over land-disputes and tribal feuds, and a solution will take time and work.
Yet even in spite of this, South Sudan has hope for the future. There is a great push for development, and the nation is rich in natural resoures. So even though the war has left South Sudan very underdeveloped and struggling in the 21st century, there is hope that the people of South Sudan will be able to develop into a strong united nation.
Literacy: (Def. age 15 and over can read and write)
total population: 27%
male:
40%
female:
16%
Infant Mortality: 102 deaths/1,000 live births (2006)
Facts acquired from CIA World Factbook
(Please consider statistics and data has been nearly impossible to gather accurately, and much has changed over the last number of years therefore these figures are rough approximates)
For more Information:Infant Mortality: 102 deaths/1,000 live births (2006)
Facts acquired from CIA World Factbook
(Please consider statistics and data has been nearly impossible to gather accurately, and much has changed over the last number of years therefore these figures are rough approximates)
See CIA World Factbook
See Wikipedia
See Government of South Sudan
Ministry in South Sudan
Even
though Christianity has been in South Sudan for many years, South Sudan is
still 25% unreached; people who have never heard the gospel. Many people in South Sudan are people who are
hostile, they are not used to people unlike themselves. They still have the mentality of war in which
they need to fight for survival and distrust anyone they don’t know.
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| South Sudan's Flag The flag’s colours symbolize the following:
Red: Blood that was shed by the liberation struggle martyrs.
White: Peace attained after many years of the liberation struggle. Blue: Waters of the Nile River, a source of life for the country. Green: The countries natural resources. Black: Black African skin. Yellow: Star guiding the country and its citizens. |
Yet
ministry in South Sudan now also has a new level of freedom that it has never
experienced before. Before its
independence, Sudan was under Sharia law which hampered and obstructed the
Church’s growth and ministry. But now
the Church has the freedom to worship, and share the gospel wherever and
whenever they can. One example has been
a recent DTS team which was able to reach out to the traffic police. These police were a completely unreached
group, made up of many ex-soldiers. They
are feared, distrusted, and many times hated by the community. But God opened the doors for them to hear the
gospel, and they were very open and happy for it.
“And he died for all,
that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died
for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly
point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to
himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that
God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins
against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his
appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.”
(2 Corinthians 5:15-20)