By William Madouk<\/p>\n
Senior catholic clerics of South Sudan have appealed to the international community to pressurize the Sudanese warring leaders to immediately cease hostilities. <\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking after a three-day ecclesiastical meeting; Archbishop of Juba, Stephen Ameyu Martin, sounded the alarm over a continued human rights violation in Sudan and the worrying humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cWe bishops are deeply concerned about the situation in Sudan; human rights abuse is on a daily basis, killing, looting and raping, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cHospitals are being destroyed; essential services such as access to food, water and electricity are being denied to the civil population,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The bishop said that in many Sudanese cities, heavy weapons are being used indiscriminately, killing civilians.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are unacceptable, and we condemn the acts in the strongest possible terms,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The catholic bishops then appealed to the international community, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and the African Union to mount pressure on Sudanese warring leaders to bring peace.<\/p>\n “The conflict destabilizing for the whole region, already fragile and weakened by internal conflict,” bishop Mula noted.<\/p>\n \u201cWe call upon the international community to prevail over Sudan\u2019s warring parties and choose dialogue as a means to solve their differences.\u201d he appealed.<\/p>\n Conflict that broke out in Sudan on April 15, has caused great loss of lives, destruction of properties, and displacement of people.<\/p>\n South Sudanese returnees, Sudanese refugees and third-country nationals have fled the country causing an international humanitarian crisis in the region.<\/p>\n Senior clerics cited that the Sudanese have made their wishes known through nonviolent protest that led to overthrowing of ex-president Omer Al Bashir, and the warring parties must respect it.<\/p>\n The church leaders also said they would continue to give moral support and stand in solidarity with war victims by providing aid assistance.<\/p>\n “We shall continue to play with our main role which is humanitarian, through our Caritas South Sudan, church and other international organizations,” Mula said.<\/p>\n The clerics further lauded the South Sudanese government for welcoming refugees fleeing the Sudan crisis and urge them to continue to let the doors open for those fleeing the war.<\/p>\n “We call on the international community to provide needed humanitarian aid both within Sudan, South Sudan and other neighboring countries hosting refugees,” he stressed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk Senior catholic clerics of South Sudan have appealed to the international community to pressurize the Sudanese warring leaders to immediately cease hostilities. Speaking after a three-day ecclesiastical meeting; Archbishop of Juba, Stephen Ameyu Martin, sounded the alarm over a continued human rights violation in Sudan and the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/sudan-war.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15473,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions\/15473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}