Largest nation in Africa and Arab world

I never realized Sudan was this big.

It is so easy to worry about our own area of the globe without considering other areas of the globe.

I think our calling is greater than that.

Learning about the needs of the rest of the globe will sharpen our hearts and minds to put our own problems in perspective and reach out to others.

South Sudan prepares for elections: "Sudan is the largest nation in either Africa or the Arab world, covering 967,000 square miles, making it about one quarter the size of the United States. It has a population of about 40 million."