Darfur is a region of the western Sudan in Africa in a deepening crisis over a brutal civil war.  More than one million people have been displaced, and over 400,000 are estimated to have been killed, although it is difficult to estimate with the population spread throughout the region in refugee camps.  The growing violence across the region is making it increasingly difficult for humanitarian organizations working with the United Nations and other international relief agencies to do their job.  Unless there is greatly enhanced multinational intervention, the death and devastation will continue.

In 2004, Congress and the President labeled the situation in Darfur “genocide,” yet two years later, little has been done to stop the killing.  It is time for the world’s leaders to intervene.  Regrets about failure to act in Darfur will join regrets expressed much too late with regard to the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. 

Click http://www.savedarfur.org for details.

Worship and study resources are available at http://www.dearsudan.org/ for congregations wanting to engage in further education and advocacy.