Churches try to prepare for the secession of southern Sudan

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With the Sudan referendum just a few weeks away, church and government groups are working hard to make sure Sudanese refugees in the US are allowed to vote while living outside their homeland and to assure the voting doesn’t lead to catastrophe.

In the US, more than 50 people of all ages, races, and nationalities attended the summit in Phoenix hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona this week. At least 15 dioceses were represented. Attending were the Rev. Angela Ifill, Episcopal Church black ministries officer; the Rev. Anderia Arok, pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Sudanese Church in Phoenix; Judith Conley of the Union of Black Episcopalians; Bishop Samuel Peni of Nzara, Sudan; and the Rev. Canon Petero Sabune, the Episcopal Church's Africa partnerships officer.Bishop Peni told ENS:

I think we in the last few days have discussed many things. We have deliberated over so many concerns, so many challenges," said Peni. "We have looked at where there have been gaps. Those gaps have been identified and we have put them forward and we will put them to the Episcopal Church to see how these gaps can be filled in. To make the community that lives here welcomed fully and that they can serve God here as well as at home.

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