Tombura-Yambio, 20 January, 2025 / 11:15 pm (ACI Africa).
Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of South Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio (CDTY) has praised the Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary (MSBVM), whose members fled from a civil war in Sudan over three decades ago, and are now behind thriving pastoral and social programs in South Sudan and Uganda.
In his congratulatory message addressed to the Congregation’s Superior General, Mother Anthonieta Bakosoro, following the profession in Uganda of the six members of the congregation, Bishop Hiiboro acknowledged the Sisters' active role in advancing the mission and vision of their institute.
“I am thankful to all my great Sisters of the institute, who are already engaged in various pastoral and social programs across Uganda and South Sudan,” the Bishop said in his message to the congregation that relocated to Uganda from Sudan in 1993.
Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of South Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio (CDTY). Credit: Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary/Uganda
MSBVM was founded in Sudan in 1980, during the period between the end of the country’s first civil war in 1972 and the outbreak of the second in 1983. As the civil wars intensified, the growing threat to the Sisters' safety forced them to flee to the Central African Republic in December 1990, where they spent three years at a refugee camp.