Fr Joseph Marious is a priest with the young Uganda-based congregation, the Apostles
of Jesus. Originally from Juba in South Sudan, he worked in the Nuba mountains as
a missionary before coming to Rome, where he’s studying at the Pontifical Institute
for Arabic and Islamic Studies. He talked to Philippa Hitchen about his hopes for
the birth of the new nation and about the ongoing plight of the people in the resource-rich
Nuba mountain region....