WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, when Bishop Macram Max Gassis was appointed to head the Diocese of El Obeid, Sudan, he found a people devastated by a grinding civil war and brutal oppression.
The diocese covers almost half of Sudan — the 10th largest nation in the world by area. Bishop Gassis's flock had a difficult time getting things like education and clean water. Three decades later, as Bishop Gassis welcomes his Coadjutor Bishop Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria, formerly a priest of the Archdiocese of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, his people no longer have reason to believe that Providence passed them by.
The diocese is now home to what human-rights activists describe as a vibrant "civilization" thriving within a nation that remains a battleground for radical Islam.
http://www.ncregister.com/register_exclusives/the_pulse_of_sudan/
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