The return of South Sudan’s Lost Boys for the birth of this new nation was perhaps the perfect symbol of its hope for a new beginning. Many are American citizens who came back to vote in the 2011 referendum that split off this country from Sudan, with which it fought for decades. Others returned to try to provide the next generation of South Sudanese children with a better country than the one they were born into.
Now, many of these Lost Boys, who had already escaped the violence in their homeland but found themselves inexorably drawn back, are trying to survive the crisis that is threatening to tear their new country apart. Lost, found and lost again, Mr. Atem says that many of his comrades are now trapped in a dangerous and shaky South Sudan.
Some have not made it out alive.
+Abraham yel Nhial, a former Lost Boy, http://www.lostboynomore.com/, whose story, along with that of others, has been told on “60 Minutes” is a friend of our St. Luke’s Parish. We hear of the South Sudan struggles from him fairly often, and pray for all involved there.