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Article: CLINIC SOUGHT IN SUDAN; FORMER LOST BOYS WANT TO GIVE THANKS BY HONORING SAINT.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2006
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Byline: Renee K. Gadoua Staff writer
Garang Amet and Angelo Kiir first heard of Josephine Bakhita in 1992, when the two former Lost Boys of Sudan were living at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.
Pope John Paul II had recently canonized Bakhita, a native of Sudan who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1877. Amet and Kiir found inspiration in the story of the woman the Roman Catholic Church later named a saint.
In thanksgiving for their survival, the men, who have lived in Syracuse since 2001, are launching a project to raise $129,500 to build St. Josephine Bakhita Clinic in the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal region of Sudan. A service and ...