Tag: Sudan

This month The Economist called Sudan “one of the most dangerous places on earth”. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and 14 million displaced.

Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid to innocent civilians in Sudan caught between conflict between state military and paramilitary forces.

Catholic leaders in Sudan are renewing calls to end violence against innocent civilians after the killing of Father Youhanna Al-Amin, a priest serving in the Diocese of El-Obeid, who chose to remain with his people amid worsening security situation in the region.

With reports of a massacre in Sudan and election-related violence in Tanzania, Pope Leo XIV pleaded for peace and dialogue.

As a paramilitary group announced the capture of el-Fasher, the besieged capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, Catholic Church leaders amplified calls for the protection of "forgotten" civilians – including thousands of children – trapped in the western Sudanese city.

A senseless and destructive war in Sudan has left Christians destitute in Egypt, while in Australia Sudanese Syrian Christians hold out hope for humanitarian visas.

Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla of Juba called for restraint and compassion as retaliatory attacks in South Sudan followed the alleged killings of South Sudanese refugees in Sudan.

The US has declared genocide in Sudan amid brutal civil war, marking the second time in two decades the term has been used for the country.

Following months of deliberation, the US government has formally declared its belief that the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are committing genocide.

Sudanese Catholic Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku Andali of El Obeid 2 December described having survived execution in his country, where he has remained with the faithful amid a deadly war between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Melkite Greek Catholic priest Fr George Banna is among those who was forced to leave his home in Sudan due to a catastrophic civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and prominent militia group Rapid Support Forces. Local supporters are trying to help his former parishioners and a group of nuns who also fled the violence.

As talks in Geneva aimed at ending the 16-month Sudanese conflict began 14 August, a Catholic bishop in the region stressed that addressing the humanitarian situation in the northeast African country cannot not wait for "tomorrow."