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from the Second Vatican Coun-
ell in Rome.
The Republic of Sudan, a
country south of the Sahara
desert, as formerly known as
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It
gained its independence in 1866.
According to the reports, the
Most Rev. Ireneus bud, d. D.,
titular bishop of Wau, was kill
ed in Juba, where the Catholic
cathedral (head church, was
also "desecrated" and seized and
is to be turned into a Muslem
mosque.
The motto of Bishop Dud, who
was raised to the bishopric by the
Late Pope Plus XII, is I'm .Cruce
Salus" f%In the Gross is Saliva
tion'o, Bishep bud was one Of the
more than 2,600 Church Fathers"
attending the Vatican Council call
ed by Pope John XIII last year.
Church sources said the bishop
had intended to discuss the posi-
ton OF the Christian community
with SudaneSe authorities.
Bishop Dud Is the first native
African bishop to be martyred for
his faith in recent years. Twenty
two Blessed Martyrs of Uganda"
all blood relatives of Archbishop
Joseph Kiwanuka, Of Rubasa, Ugan-
da, were slain i'm the latter part of
the 10th century.
The refugees said the beheading
OF Bishop bud and another Sudan
csc Catholic priest were part of a
budding Holy war between Chris
t1ans and MoSlems, that has swept
the Sudan in recent weeks. They
said many Sudanese Christians had
been mutilated by Arabs and that
scores of missionaries were expeu-
ed or fined large sums OF money.
These same refugees said Sudan
csc authorities were determined to
exterminate Christianity in South
ern Sudan and replace it with
Islam.
Ut is unofficiauy reported that
under SudaneSe law the Christian
population is subjected to rigorous
laws and missionary work Is hamp-
cred. Even Christian parents have
to obtain special permission TO
baptize their children, the refugees
said. They added that priests and
nuns have been fined heavily for
illegal" missionary work or for
offenses such as telling their pupils
to attend Mass.
Most of the missionaries being
evrelled were Italians of the Vero-
ma FATHERS order, from which Bis
hop Dud received his religious edu-
cation
Meanwhile. ~it-,.wax rot known
what will be the fate of about
100000 Christians living in south
ern Sudan.
Meanwhile. information about the
burial of Bishop Dud was not avail.
2oie Monday Ian. III.
A convert to Catholicism, Bishop
bud, whose father, bud Akot was q
chief of the great Jur tribe of Bah
rel Ghazal in Southern Sudan, YVES
born a non Christian and baptized
while still young boy at Mill.
Sudan. He was educated in the
Verona Fathers school there and
received his minor and major Sc
r1inary training at BuSsere, and at
Gulu, Uganda. He was ordained =
priest on Dec. 81, 1914.
An outstanding administrator
and a brilliant linguist Che speaks
English, Arabic, and Italian fllently.
as well as senegal African dia-
lects). Bishop bud held the docto-
rate degree in theology.
Bishop Dud was named Vicar
Apostolic of Rumbek In Sudan, by
Pope Plus XII ON July 3, 1855. He
was corlsecrated bishop no Nov.
20, 1855, by Archbishop James r.
Knox, then Apostolic Delegate to
British East and West Africa.
Pope John XxIII recently pro-
noted Bishop bud to head the
diocese of Wau.