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Our journey with the displaced

& Darkness

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Darkness

Darkness Our journey with the displaced

War, conflict, violence, kidnapping

Darkness

Displacement, poverty


Darkness

Scarcity, hunger


Darkness

Death

“why, why, why do we have to continue burying our beloved ones in this

strange land?

Until when will this terrible pain afflict us?”


LightOur journey with the displaced

Light


Joy


Community


Celebration


Journeying together


Caring

In the light there is darkness.But don’t take it as darkness.

In the dark there is light,But don’t see it as light.

Zen poem, Sandokai

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“Our biggest temptation, on seeing the distress of the refugees (...) is to begin projects, to give material things, to decide en masse what the refugees need. They often arrive in exile without shoes, with only one torn shirt, hungry, without a clear plan.

But they did not undergo this experience in order to get a shirt or shoes. Their human experience is to be respected. They are traumatized by violence, lonely, rejected, exhausted in body certainly, but also exhausted by their loss of a place in a stable society, and sometimes feeling guilty at what they did to survive.

They want to be understood, to be heard. Their frequent question is: Why is God doing this to me? They have the right to ask this question. But it cannot be asked unless someone listens. This is our primary role, to listen to the questions, to the longing and to the fundamental human need of the refugees.” Mark Raper


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I will say one more thing and please don´t forget it.

Pray, pray much. Problems such as these are not solved by human efforts.

Fr. Arrupe´s “ swan song” 1981


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MAY IT BE SO

All pictures were taken in Maban, South SudanJRS Maban 2015


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