International ecumenical solidarity visit to Sudan

26 March to 2 April 2008 Read more about the Sudan visit

Candle of peace

Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit (right) holds a candle of peace offered by WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia (left) on behalf of the WCC-AACC international ecumenical solidarity visit to Sudan.

Worship in Khartoum

Sudanese Christians face the future praising the Lord. Worship at All Saints Cathedral, Khartoum, 31 March 2008.

Representatives of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) met an international ecumenical delegation led by the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia in Khartoum on Wednesday 26 March 2008.

From left to right: Bishop Rudolph Deng Majak, chairman of the SCC board of trustees and president of the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference; WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia; Rev. Musa Koda Jura of the Sudanese Church of Christ, chair of the SCC executive committee; Rev. Peter Tibi of the Africa Inland Church, the SCC's general secretary.

A view of the Christian cemetery of Khartoum, Sudan.

Rev. Peter Tibi (right), general secretary of the Sudan Council of Churches, pretends interest in a second hand car on sale at the Christian cemetery of Khartoum, Sudan.

Rev. Peter Tibi, general secretary of the Sudan Council of Churches, shows where the section of the Christian cemetery of Khartoum squatted by second hand car salers starts.

Metropolitan Dr Zacharias Mar Theophilus: "If you are bound in a community by love and care for the humanity that is the greatest security."

Members of the ecumenical team visiting Yambio, in Southern Sudan, Metropolitan Dr Zacharias Mar Theophilus (second from left) and Bishop Dr. Gerrit Noltensmeier (second from right), meet community members and local church staff.