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Welcome, I am Bishop Macram Gassis, of El Obeid Diocese, Sudan. And I can bear witness to more than 20 years of religious persecution, enslavement, rape, torture, starvation and murder of my people at the hands of the Sudanese government.

I can tell you of the 2.2 million people who have perished as the direct result of a campaign of genocide against Sudan's Christian and non-Muslim population—a death toll greater than all the victims in Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda combined.

I can tell you without hesitation that the Sudanese government has bombed churches, schools, hospitals and refugee centers. For over 20 years, the Catholc Church has provided the people with the basics needed to preserve life and to find Christ.

I can tell you that the regime has tortured and killed its own citizens including catechists, teachers and priests. I can tell you that the Sudanese government supports the selling of Christians and non-Muslims as slaves.

What's more, I can tell you that millions of our brothers and sister in Sudan have no homes, and so must find shelter wherever possible under extremely unhealthy conditions. They are in need of clean water, food and basic sanitation.

That is why in 1998 I established the Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund for the purpose of bringing food, clothing, shelter, medical attention and the Gospel of Christ to the people of Sudan.

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Sudan in the News

A group of Darfur rebel movements have expressed their readiness to join Doha peace process and to discuss the modalities of their participation with the Sudanese government in a meeting held with AU-UN Chief Mediator in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday June 29.
2009-07-02

Sudan will delay its national elections by two months to April 2010, said officials on Tuesday, the second postponement of the poll which will be the country's first democratic vote in two decades.
2009-07-01

The Sudanese presidential adviser Ghazi Salah Al-Deen said that the delegation he led to Washington said that they have achieved ?unprecedented? results.
2009-06-30

Sudan's former southern rebels on Sunday said there had been no concrete progress in talks over a faltering peace deal with the north, and warned time was running out to save the accord.
2009-06-29

The Sudanese government today denied reports that it struck a secret deal with the United States that would eventually lead to the easing of the unilateral sanctions.
2009-06-29

Islamic militants have threatened violence against Sudan's government and could target Western interests following the death of a suspected militant, the U.S. embassy in Khartoum said on Wednesday.
2009-06-24

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