Sudan Referendum

Clip: 1/14/2011 | 7m 37s

A vote in predominantly Christian South Sudan may mean the birth of a new nation.

During decades of civil war in Sudan, says John Ashworth of Catholic Relief Services, the church was the only institution on the ground with the people, and because of that it gained huge moral authority. Now South Sudan is voting in a referendum for independence from the Muslim-majority national government in Khartoum.

01/14/2011 | Rating NR

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