Mindy Belz of World Magazine has a good summary of how Manute Bol, a Christian from South Sudan, lived and died for his country. An excerpt:
…Bol himself had 250 members of his own extended family killed at the hands of Khartoum’s Islamic government during the war. (His father named him Manute, meaning “special blessing.”). Remarkable also for a 7-foot-7 NBA star drafted by the Washington Bullets in 1985 and later traded to the Golden State Warriors, 76ers, and Miami Heat. He played 10 seasons as the tallest center in the NBA, earning an estimated $6 million that most who know him say was spent on helping Sudanese. “God guided me to America and gave me a good job,” he notably said, “but he also gave me a heart so I would look back.”
Read the whole thing.
(Photo: Sudan Sunrise)