8/7/2023 4:15:26 AM
Yesterday’s evening, I met with a group of Sudanese church leaders. The purpose of their visit was to learn about the government's plan to end the war and discuss the role that the church can play to ease the impact of the war on the displaced and refugees. Especially since on Friday, corresponding to the fifth of last August, prayers were held that included the World Council of Churches, the African Council of Churches, and the Sudanese Council of Churches to pray for an end to the war in Sudan.
During the meeting, we discussed the role of the church community in ending wars in Sudan Starting with Addis Ababa and actively contributing to ending the war in the south and benefiting from the relations of the Sudanese churches in attracting humanitarian support and delivering humanitarian aid from international organizations we also discussed mechanisms for distributing aid to all Sudanese without discrimination on the basis of race or religion or any other basis.
The meeting dealt with the violations that churches were subjected to, the destruction that affected them, the deliberate vandalism of them, the killing and torture of priests, and they called on the government to monitor and document these violations. We also touched on the multiplicity of initiatives, which did not take us to the square of ending the war.
We emphasized that we would turn this disaster into a benefit, to unite the Sudanese conscience with it, stop the sound of the gun in Sudan once and for all, and to establish a new state that can move forward and can make the Sudanese proud to be its citizens.