From Rhode Island-
With South Sudan set to become an independent nation Saturday, Rhode Island Episcopal Bishop Geralyn Wolf will go to Washington in coming days to advocate for a renewed effort by the United States to secure peace and security in the troubled region.
Bishop Wolf noted that she has been invited by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse to lead the U.S. Senate in prayer at its July 14 session. Following that, she said, she and her husband, Thomas Bair Jr., plan to meet the other members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation, Sen. Jack Reed and Representatives David N. Cicilline and James R. Langevin, about the problems facing the people of South Sudan.
Bair, who accompanied his wife on a visit to the Diocese of Rhode Island’s companion Ezo diocese in southern Sudan in 2008, says that after 98 percent of the voters in predominantly Christian South Sudan voted in January to break off from the rest of Sudan, many people had assumed the region would enjoy some peace.
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http://www.projo.com/religion/content/WOLF_SUDAN_07-09-11_RPP322D_v8.4c259.html
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