Williams meets Sudanese refugee children
-02/03/06
On the traditional day of fasting fo
Williams meets Sudanese refugee children
-02/03/06
On the traditional day of fasting for millions of Christians around the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury, took time to meet people in southern Sudan who depend on the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to keep hunger at bay and help rebuild their lives after decades of civil war.
Rowan Williams, was greeted by hundreds of children and women as he visited refugee centres in southern Sudan on Ash Wednesday.
The Archbishop also travelled by work boat along the White Nile to meet victims of Sudanís 21-year civil war who still live in camps for internally displaced people more than a year after the signing of a peace agreement to end the war.
Williams, who is on an eight-day trip to Sudan, visited Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. The World Food Programme (WFP), said it hoped Williams would help draw attention to the region.
“This visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury will help to shine a light on a part of Sudan that has drifted from the headlines since the comprehensive peace agreement was signed in January 2005,” WFP Sudan Deputy Country Director Ebenezer Tagoe said.
“While fighting has largely subsided, the people of the south face the monumental challenge of rebuilding after so many bitter years of conflict.”
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The WFP plans to provide food aid during to more than six million people in Sudan this year — including the south, east and western region of Darfur. Two million of those people are in the south.
Among those receiving assistance in the south are refugees returning to their long-abandoned homes by foot and by barge.
ìThe Episcopal Church in the Sudan remains one of the key civil society organisations capable of delivering reconciliation and sustained development in the region,î said Dr. Williams.
ìI am proud to be visiting them at this crucial time in their countryís history and I look forward to supporting the work of the World Food Programme in Sudan. I am anxious to see governments, UN agencies and faith-based organisations working together to strengthen all that makes for peace in a land that has known far too much war.î
The Archbishops 8 day trip began on Sunday.
During his visit he has made appeals for peace, urging tolerance towards religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country as well as the return of confiscated Church property.
Williams meets Sudanese refugee children
-02/03/06
On the traditional day of fasting for millions of Christians around the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury, took time to meet people in southern Sudan who depend on the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to keep hunger at bay and help rebuild their lives after decades of civil war.
Rowan Williams, was greeted by hundreds of children and women as he visited refugee centres in southern Sudan on Ash Wednesday.
The Archbishop also travelled by work boat along the White Nile to meet victims of Sudanís 21-year civil war who still live in camps for internally displaced people more than a year after the signing of a peace agreement to end the war.
Williams, who is on an eight-day trip to Sudan, visited Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. The World Food Programme (WFP), said it hoped Williams would help draw attention to the region.
“This visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury will help to shine a light on a part of Sudan that has drifted from the headlines since the comprehensive peace agreement was signed in January 2005,” WFP Sudan Deputy Country Director Ebenezer Tagoe said.
“While fighting has largely subsided, the people of the south face the monumental challenge of rebuilding after so many bitter years of conflict.”
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The WFP plans to provide food aid during to more than six million people in Sudan this year — including the south, east and western region of Darfur. Two million of those people are in the south.
Among those receiving assistance in the south are refugees returning to their long-abandoned homes by foot and by barge.
ìThe Episcopal Church in the Sudan remains one of the key civil society organisations capable of delivering reconciliation and sustained development in the region,î said Dr. Williams.
ìI am proud to be visiting them at this crucial time in their countryís history and I look forward to supporting the work of the World Food Programme in Sudan. I am anxious to see governments, UN agencies and faith-based organisations working together to strengthen all that makes for peace in a land that has known far too much war.î
The Archbishops 8 day trip began on Sunday.
During his visit he has made appeals for peace, urging tolerance towards religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country as well as the return of confiscated Church property.