{"id":1439,"date":"2013-01-29T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/discoveriesofawanderer\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2013-01-29T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:53:05","slug":"bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" align=\"left\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2125230744001&amp;playerID=961751338001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3-z6Izk~,70dt0G6K4XP9jJGaqwc9VohXisAPIx8D&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2125230744001&amp;playerID=961751338001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3-z6Izk~,70dt0G6K4XP9jJGaqwc9VohXisAPIx8D&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" flashVars=\"videoId=2125230744001&amp;playerID=961751338001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3-z6Izk~,70dt0G6K4XP9jJGaqwc9VohXisAPIx8D&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"videoId=2125230744001&amp;playerID=961751338001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3-z6Izk~,70dt0G6K4XP9jJGaqwc9VohXisAPIx8D&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" align=\"left\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><\/object>January marks the two-year anniversary of South Sudan\u2019s independence referendum, a vote for formal separation from Sudan after several years of disputes between the two regions over the land. Elias Taban, the national bishop of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Uganda, experienced the impact of Sudan&#8217;s war first hand. Just after his birth, Taban\u2019s mother hid with him in the jungle for three days to flee from violence. When he was 13, Taban was forced to become a child soldier with the southern rebels. \u201cDuring the war \u2026 the only hope of the civil population was the dependence on the church,\u201d said Taban, who converted to Christianity at 23. \u201cSo the church has been very instrumental in terms of giving people hope in Jesus Christ, preaching the gospel and assuring people that God will hear our cry, our prayers.\u201d Taban is president of the Sudan Evangelical Alliance, which has helped establish close to 200 churches and two orphanages in southern Sudan. He also serves as the Sudan project director of Basic Ministries International, an evangelical organization that has started churches across South Sudan and has drilled more than 400 water wells.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published originally on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odysseynetworks.org\/video\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan\" target=\"_blank\">Odyssey Networks<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January marks the two-year anniversary of South Sudan\u2019s independence referendum, a vote for formal separation from Sudan after several years of disputes between the two regions over the land. Elias Taban, the national bishop of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Uganda, experienced the impact of Sudan&#8217;s war first hand. Just after his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,12,11,26],"tags":[333,332,265,217],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-christianity","category-god","category-jesus","category-videos","tag-christianity-in-africa","tag-recovery","tag-sudan","tag-violence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan - Discoveries of a Wanderer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan - Discoveries of a Wanderer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January marks the two-year anniversary of South Sudan\u2019s independence referendum, a vote for formal separation from Sudan after several years of disputes between the two regions over the land. Elias Taban, the national bishop of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Uganda, experienced the impact of Sudan&#8217;s war first hand. Just after his&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Discoveries of a Wanderer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-29T16:53:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jana Melpolder\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan - Discoveries of a Wanderer","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan - Discoveries of a Wanderer","og_description":"January marks the two-year anniversary of South Sudan\u2019s independence referendum, a vote for formal separation from Sudan after several years of disputes between the two regions over the land. Elias Taban, the national bishop of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Uganda, experienced the impact of Sudan&#8217;s war first hand. Just after his&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html","og_site_name":"Discoveries of a Wanderer","article_published_time":"2013-01-29T16:53:05+00:00","author":"Jana Melpolder","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html","name":"Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan - Discoveries of a Wanderer","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-01-29T16:53:05+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-29T16:53:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#\/schema\/person\/ed4df2f4c08a1cb26b9e488226ab83af"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2013\/01\/bishop-elias-taban-on-the-new-south-sudan.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bishop Elias Taban on the New South Sudan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/","name":"Discoveries of a Wanderer","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Jana Melpolder","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#\/schema\/person\/ed4df2f4c08a1cb26b9e488226ab83af","name":"Jana Melpolder","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/author\/jmelpolder"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}