Ten thousand people fleeing the violence of the South Sudanese civil war have taken refuge in and near the nation’s largest church, St Mary’s Cathedral in Wau. “Space is at such a premium that some people even sleep next to the church’s altar,” the IRIN news agency reported. A priest at the cathedral told the agency, which reports on humanitarian crises, that “those who flee believe that even rebels still fear God and would not slaughter civilians in the backyard of a church. Many other churches have also taken in hundreds of people.”
Bandel Basilica Inspires Religious Harmony Across Faiths
The Basilica of the Holy Rosary, popularly known as Bandel Church in West Bengal, continues to attract thousands of pilgrims from different faiths, standing as
