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Sudan: nternational Church Team to Pay Solidarity Visit
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Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Geneva
An international team of church representatives will this week pay a solidarity visit to churches and ecumenical organizations in Sudan.
The visit, from March 26 to 2 April, will be led by the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Samuel Kobia. The team will split in four groups to visit Darfur, Khartoum, Rumbek and Yambio before joining Sudanese church leaders, women and youth, for a three-day conference in Juba.
WCC said in a statement that the visit aims to be an opportunity for the international ecumenical representatives to express solidarity with the Sudanese people and listen to the churches in the country.
"Through visits to local Christian communities, civil society organizations, internally displaced people, humanitarian agencies and political representatives, the ecumenical team will learn about their concerns, hopes and needs."
Organized by the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and WCC, the visit is hosted by the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC). The ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response Operation will facilitate the visit to the Darfur region.
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A two-decade civil war between the northern and the southern parts of the country, which killed some 2 million people and left more than 4 million internally displaced persons, ended with a precarious peace agreement in January 2005.
Since early 2003 the western region of Darfur has seen an ongoing conflict between rebel groups and government backed militias in which between 200,000 and 400,000 people have been killed, an estimated 1,8 million fled their homes and another 200,000 sought refuge in neighbouring Chad and the Central African Republic.
After gathering first hand experience through field visits, the ecumenical team will join some 50 representatives of Sudanese churches in a conference taking place in Juba, the capital city of southern Sudan, from 31 March to 2 April. Church leaders, women and youth will share testimonies and discuss the challenges they face regarding peace making, HIV and AIDS, post-war reconstruction and more.
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