EpiscoGrrlhttps://ground.news/article/sudanese-return-to-their-homeland-hoping-for-stability-but-finding-it-still-wrecked-by-war?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=article-share My #EpiscopalChurch has sponsored & supported several #Sudanese #refugees over the years, including a now priest (who is one of my favorite people & the only ordination I’ve attended since Covid) Few, if any, of the families we’ve helped settle in the U.S. are thinking of returning to #Sudan this story reminds us of the importance of welcoming #immigrants & of #home These are people who have fled #war & #famine as the Israelites did in the Old Testament. These are people seeking a better life & future for themselves & their families. When we call for an end to #immigration we forget that our forbears were all #immigrants at some point. We forget that we are called to welcome others as we were welcomed. On the #NationalDayofPrayer let us all pray for the grace to welcome strangers, seeing in them our future friends.
Sudanese return to their homeland, hoping for stability but finding it still wrecked by war
Ahmed Abdalla sat on a sidewalk in downtown Cairo, waiting for a bus that will start him on his journey back to Sudan. He doesn’t know what he’ll find in his homeland, wrecked and still embroiled in a 2-year-old war.