A Short Timeline for Sudan  In antiquity—Sudan was known as Nubia and was settled by people migrating from Egypt. This timeline touches on events involving Sudan from the time of the Crusades in 1098 to today.... (continue)
An American-African Partnership in Southern Sudan  by Danny Howe and Anne Travis Driving home down Interstate 81 toward Knoxville, Tennessee, we witnessed a beautiful sunset behind the mountains of East Tennessee. Having just attended an all-day "packing party" with those who would leave in just nine days ... (continue)
The Holston Conference's First Fact-finding Mission to Yei in Southern Sudan  by Caroline Njuki In 2006, the Holston Annual Conference, having decided to send a team to Yei in Southern Sudan, requested assistance from Global Ministries' Africa office staff. The idea for this trip sprang from a chance meeting between ... (continue)
A Journey’s Reflection  by Michelle Scott, photos by Paul Jeffrey Sudan is a place of contrasts: dusty and dry, lush and green; Muslim and Christian; peaceful and hostile. It is also a place where one can see Easter hope springing up in corners where once all hope was lost. You can see ... (continue)
A Town in Darfur, Sudan, Dubbed “Ohio Village”  by Karen Smith Deriga, Sudan, is a small village in the southern part of the Darfur region. It was destroyed during a brutal scorched-earth attack by the "Janjaweed," a proxy militia group unleashed by the Sudanese government to fight Darfuri ... (continue)

The Hope of Sudan  This May-June edition of New World Outlook is our annual mission-study issue, a companion piece to the geographic topic studied at the Schools of Christian Mission. This year the new study is on the country of Sudan. ...(continue)

The online version of New World Outlook features selected articles from the printed magazine. These additional stories appear in the print publication.

Sudan: Consumed in Conflict by Chris Herlinger A New Church for a New Sudan - United Methodists Foster Hope as Southern Sudan Clings to Precarious Peace story and photos by Paul Jeffrey UMCOR at Work in Sudan Starting Over in Michigan: Sudanese Families Resettle in the United States by Linda Burson, photos by Brad Smith Clean Water, Good Schools: UMCOR’s Gift to South Sudan - story and photos by David Malloy

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