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Article: Herod lives: the story from Sudan. (human rights violations)
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- Commonweal
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- December 16, 1994
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Last year, in Nimule, a village in southern Sudan, Christmas burst upon me with a joy unlike any I have ever experienced. Its memory still unleashes in me the same set of physical responses I felt at the time: pounding heart, a burning fullness of eyes and throat akin to sorrow, a restlessness and excitement that beg for release. Perhaps I was just caught up with the celebratory crowd in Nimule. Or perhaps it was that I had not expected such joy amidst such uncertainty and sorrow. But for me, the Word was made Flesh.
December came with its usual stifling summer heat, made more oppressive by the proximity of the Nile. Sudan, the largest country in Africa, means ...