Joyful multi lingual, multi cultural service in diocese

On Saturday 6 May in Oulu, Finland, Bishop David (The Rt Revd. David Hamid, Suffragan Bishop in Europe) licensed Amos Yorobam Manga as a reader in the Church of England.

The service was conducted largely in Arabic and accompanied by drums and hymns from the Sudan. Amos trained at the Episcopal Church College in Khartoum and was admitted to the ministry of reader by the Bishop of Lui (Sudan) in 1997. He was to be ordained to the diaconate in 2000 but had to flee the Sudan due to the conflict. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees settled Amos and his family in Finland where he now exercises a pastoral ministry among the approximately 1000 Sudanese refugees throughout the country.

This ministry is supported and overseen by Fr Rupert Moreton, the chaplain of St Nicholas Helsinki.

Picture of the service

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