The Comboni Missionaries opened their first community in Juba over 50 years ago. At that time, the British did not allow any Catholic missions in the West Bank \u2013 the area was reserved to the Anglicans \u2013 but let the congregation open a Procure where now functions the Archdiocesan Curia and the parish of St. Joseph. The chapel \u2013 now parish church \u2013 served the community and the Catholic patients at Juba Teaching Hospital.
\nAfter the 1964 expulsion, the Combonis returned to Juba at the end of the 1970s. Comboni House was built in 1981 and became the provincial headquarters. In 1993, all expatriate missionaries were taken from Juba to Khartoum for \u201csecurity reasons.\u201d The Sudanese confreres left the house one year later and the Brothers of St Martin de Porres took care of it.
\nThe Comboni Missionaries were back in Juba in March 2006, fourteen months after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed.
\nA group of brothers worked for one year in the (re)construction of the buildings.
\nThe provincial headquarters were transferred from Nairobi, Kenya, to Juba in 2008.<\/p>\n
Missionary work<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI shall make common cause with the poorest and most abandoned\u201d<\/em>. \u2013 St. Daniel Comboni<\/p>\n Comboni House, which is the Provincial House in South Sudan, is normally a place for administration and procurement. However, the missionaries residing in that building are also at the service of the Archdiocese of Juba and carry out some pastoral activities in the capital of South Sudan.<\/p>\n Besides the administrative works, the Comboni missionaries in Juba are engaged with building and teaching at St. Pauls\u2019 Major Seminary and Juba Catholic University and also for the Religious Superior\u2019s Association of South Sudan (RSASS).<\/p>\n They are also committed to promote Justice, Peace and Reconciliation and do pastoral work among the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the Protection of Civilians site (POC) in the capital Juba.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Members of the Community<\/strong><\/p>\n Fr. Gregor Schmidt, from Germany (provincial)<\/p>\n Fr. P. Boosuuro Maaso-Endogee Pius, from Togo<\/p>\n Fr. Denima Darama, from DRC<\/p>\n Fr. Krzysztof Zebik, from Poland<\/p>\n Br. Bozza Claudio, from Italy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Comboni Missionaries opened their first community in Juba over 50 years ago. At that time, the British did not allow any Catholic missions in the West Bank \u2013 the area was reserved to the Anglicans \u2013 but let the congregation open a Procure where now functions the Archdiocesan Curia and the parish of St. Joseph. The chapel \u2013 now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}