SOUTH SOUDAN: HOW GOD IS HEALING THE WOUNDS OF THE WAR IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP
	Hundreds of thousands of people from South Sudan have fled to the Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in Uganda to escape their country's ongoing brutal civil war. Here victims and their victimizers find healing through faith in Jesus Christ. "I can't sleep unless I keep on praying," Achol Kuol, a mother of five, told Religion News Service. "I always have nightmares. In my dreams I go back to my old village and I see how my friends were shot dead. They keep on calling me, 'Achol! Achol! Achol!' And I would wake up screaming." Kuol joins many others who attend the open-air churches in the camps. There, she reads comforting Scriptures while others cry out to ask God for forgiveness for the violence they committed during the war in South Sudan. "Many refugees go to church because it's the only likely place in the camp where they can get help to recover from the trauma," Gabriel Mayen, a trauma counsellor at Bidi Bidi said. "The church gives them new hope, which is important to refugees and any person who has experienced trauma." South Sudan, the world's youngest country, broke out into a civil war between the Government and Opposition Forces in 2013. Since then, millions have been displaced while others face severe violence and starvation. Source: Religion News Service, JNI 1096, 17 September 2018.