Never Forget What God Has Done in South Sudan

From The Living Church-

With turmoil and revolution raging across the Middle East and North Africa, the recent triumph of peaceful democracy in South Sudan’s January 2011 Referendum on Secession has been all but forgotten. It was in South Sudan’s vote for independence from Sudan that a true democracy, Africa’s 54th nation, was born. The worldwide Church, and particularly the people of South Sudan themselves, should never forget what God has done for South Sudan. Nor should the rest of Sudan’s marginalized and oppressed peoples be forgotten.

Many doubted that people who have been devastated by decades of genocidal war waged against them by their own government could carry out such an election. There was also good reason to believe that the Sudanese government would interfere with the referendum, which was the culmination of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. And there were fears that tribal conflict, vote-rigging, and other problems could plague the vote.

But the referendum, bathed in prayer by South Sudan’s Christians and their friends around the world, was conducted with peace, integrity, and dignity. Although ten Southern Sudanese traveling from northern Sudan to vote were murdered by northern Arab Misseriya tribesmen, there were no such incidences within the South. When the votes were tallied in February 2011, 98.83 percent of voters chose independence. And surprisingly, considering its past history of violating and failing to implement peace agreements, Khartoum accepted the results of the vote without dispute.

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