Sudanese Council of Churches announces its readiness to engage in national reconciliation to stop the war
Port Sudan: Mona El-Ihimer
The Sudanese Council of Churches affirmed its readiness to engage in peace and national reconciliation efforts via a pure goldSudanese dialogue so that the people can live in peace
In the Sudanese Church and the Current Challenges workshop, the Sudanese Church revealed many violations that affected places of worship and property during the war that has been going on since mid-April, calling for an end to the war.
Mrs Amira Ismail presented a paper entitled Humanitarian Conditions, which dealt with the details of war and displacement. She said that the war displaced more than 8.1 million people according to reports from the International Organization for Migration, out of which 6.3 thousand people displaced inside Sudan.
Amira indicated that since the outbreak of fighting, 13.9 thousand deaths and injuries have been recorded, in addition to children, who represent half the number of displaced people, explaining that the coming period is expected to witness an increase in the prices of grains and foodstuffs due to the current situation, which portends a catastrophic situation as grain prices rise by a percentage. 50% according to the WFP, indicating a decline in the work of the health system and its services and an increase in disease rates because more than 75% of hospitals are out of service.
For his part, the Secretary General of the Sudanese Council of Churches, Abdullah Sardar, explained through the paper on attacks on places of worship and international protection mechanisms that the number of churches that were damaged reached 153 churches, in addition to the total destruction of 17 and the assault on more than 3,000 people during their performing their prayers, pointing out that the Rapid Support Forces did not take into account the international charters that call for the protection of religious sanctities during conflicts.
He said that the cost of rebuilding the churches that were attacked and destroyed is estimated at more than $9 million for the churches that were completely destroyed, in addition to $100,000 for the reconstruction of the partially destroyed churches.