South Sudan Council of Churches head holds on to hope, unity amid crisis

As a peace deal signed a year ago falters and the world’s newest nation faces famine, Isaiah Majok Dau, head of the South Sudan Council of Churches, continues to find sources of hope.

Dau, who is also presiding bishop of the Sudan Pentecostal Church, recently visited the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and spoke to an ecumenical network focusing on South Sudan.

“We are experiencing levels of violence we have never seen before,” he said. “I talk as a church person [and] as a person who is involved in the situation every day, listening and hearing from both sides and the ordinary person in the street.”