World Vision suspends operations in South Sudan state

Juba, South Sudan — Amid killings, rapes and abductions, the international evangelical humanitarian agency World Vision indefinitely suspended its operations in South Sudan’s Unity State over the escalating conflict. Multiple other aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, have taken similar actions. On May 13 gunmen torched towns in some of the heaviest fighting in the 17-month-long conflict in the predominantly…