Nuer Faith Community Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/nuer-faith-community/ Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:35:23 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png Nuer Faith Community Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/nuer-faith-community/ 32 32 South Sudanese refugee finds home in community https://journeyonline.com.au/features/south-sudanese-refugee-finds-home-in-community/ https://journeyonline.com.au/features/south-sudanese-refugee-finds-home-in-community/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:00:46 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=20786 Former South Sudanese refugee Maria (Nyaluit) Phalpang belongs to the Uniting Church Nuer faith community in Brisbane. She tells her story to Dianne Jensen. Maria (Nyaluit) Phalpang has travelled a long way from her childhood home of Bentiu in Unity, a predominantly Christian state in war-torn South Sudan. Faith, family and a passion for education ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/features/south-sudanese-refugee-finds-home-in-community/feed/ 0 Uniting Church condemns South Sudan violence https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/uniting-church-condemns-south-sudan-violence/ https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/uniting-church-condemns-south-sudan-violence/#respond Thu, 24 Apr 2014 06:58:23 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=18658 The Queensland Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia strongly condemns the recent violence in South Sudan. Children were among the dozens of internally displaced persons attacked by gunmen on 17 April while sheltering at a UN site in the central South Sudanese town of Bor, capital of strife-torn Jonglei state. In recent months thousands ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/uniting-church-condemns-south-sudan-violence/feed/ 0 South Sudan tensions endanger Brisbane pastor https://journeyonline.com.au/local-church-news/south-sudan-tensions-endanger-brisbane-pastor/ https://journeyonline.com.au/local-church-news/south-sudan-tensions-endanger-brisbane-pastor/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:30:18 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=18358 Moses Leth, pastor of the Uniting Church’s South Sudanese Nuer Faith Community in Brisbane’s Coopers Plains narrowly escaped death under fire. Ashley Goetze reports. As the world’s newest sovereign state struggles to navigate tensions between the Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups, media outlets speculate that South Sudan runs the risk of mirroring nearby republic Rwanda’s ...

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