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Bishop Daniel Abot's Maundy Thursday 2025 message

“Could I make a personal request for as many of you as are able to come to a Maundy Thursday service and join in remembering the sequence of events, without which Palm Sunday to Easter Day do not come together, and it is THE story on which our faith is based,” invites Bishop Daniel Abot

The Rev'd Dr Ibrahim Wushishi Yusuf, World Council of Churches programme executive for Peacebuilding in Africa (Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC)
International

WCC’s peace-building work in Africa deepens in partnership with member churches

The Rev’d Dr Ibrahim Wushishi Yusuf, World Council of Churches programme executive for Peacebuilding in Africa and coordinator of the WCC Africa Regional Programme Office in Abuja, Nigeria, reflects on the focus for peace-building work in Africa in 2025, and why inter-religious dialogue is so important

Reflections

To Fargo and back

“Hugging people with tears of joy was the highlight of my recent trip to the US for me. We former Lost Boys had lots to reminisce about because we are such good friends — we kept each other alive on the long desert journeys and during our 15 years in the refugee camps,” says Bishop Daniel Abot

Reflections

The miraculous story of baby Angeer

“Because I had been flown from Juba in a Mission Aviation Fellowship plane, I was able to arrange for baby Angeer to be airlifted to a hospital in Juba. She was held lovingly in the aircraft on the way,” says Bishop Daniel Abot from South Sudan

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Bishop Daniel Abot’s Palm Sunday 2024 message

“I remember my first Palm Sunday. It was in 1987. I was fleeing to Ethiopia from South Sudan, along with thousands of other young boys and girls, to avoid being conscripted as a child soldier. Even though I was only 11 years old at the time, I knew it was Palm Sunday. Because we were fleeing on foot through the bush, the only way we could keep track of time was by the moon. We gathered under a shady tree in prayer to commemorate the special day,” says Bishop Daniel Abot