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UN Security Council Promotes Status Quo in Abyei and Ignores Nuba Mountains
The United Nations Security Council met in New York on Friday, November 16, 2012 to discuss the report of the Secretary General on Sudan. In their fifteen-minute-long meeting they adopted unanimously...
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Musings After The White House Meeting on Sudan
(Photo credit: CNN) By Faith McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) Yesterday, representing both IRD’s Church Alliance for a New Sudan and Act for Sudan, the broad-based alliance of activists, I went to the White...
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Sudanese Government Attacks Refugee Camps
(Photo credit: The Bronx Papers/ WordPress) It’s the dry season in Sudan and what fresh hell does this bring to the marginalized and persecuted people? It brings a new military campaign by the Sudanese...
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Refuge, Identity, and Nightmares: The Nuba in Yida Refugee Camp
(Photo Credit: The Niles, Bonifacio Taban) Refugees in Yida Camp by Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) Two articles from The Niles online magazine provide a glimpse of life for the Nuba people of...
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Twenty Years Ago in South Sudan
By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) (Photo credit: Kevin Carter, 1960-1994) Photo-journalist Carter committed suicide in July 1994, just months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for the photo. 2013...
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Congressman Says Obama Has Failed on Sudan
U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) visits the Nuba refugees at Yida Refugee Camp, South Sudan. (Photo Credit – Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission) By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) Spurred by tens of...
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Obama Administration to Welcome Genocidal Sudanese Leaders for Talks
By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) In a makeshift shelter of plastic tarps in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, an American linguist, Deborah Martin, interviewed dozens of Darfurian refugees. The year...
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Tell State Dept: Nafie Not Welcome
Nafie Ali Nafie, Khartoum chief negotiator and torturer. (Photo credit: Act for Sudan) By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) Last week I wrote an article for Front Page Magazine (and reposted on this...
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One Million Bones on the National Mall
Laying of the bones in Congo Square, New Orleans(Photo credit: One Million Bones) By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) The IRD is a founding member of Act for Sudan, a bi-partisan alliance of...
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A Grim Anniversary in Sudan
Photo courtesy of Operation Broken Silence, taken in the Nuba Mountains, May 2013, during an End Nuba Genocide coalition relief operation. By Faith J. H. McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) “The students go to...
View ArticleAct for Sudan: Join the Obama’s Stained Legacy Campaign
Act for Sudan’s Obama’s Stained Legacy Logo (Photo credit: Act for Sudan) IRD’s Church Alliance for a New Sudan is proud to be a member of Act for Sudan, a coalition of individuals and organizations...
View ArticleSudan & Obama’s Legacy of Death
Darfuri children: will they be part of President Obama’s legacy? (Photo credit: World Without Genocide) Mohamed Suleiman, an America citizen since 1992, is a Zaghawa from the village of Um barrow in...
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Save My People: A Sudanese Bishop’s Plea to President Obama
On Friday, September 6, 2013, Act for Sudan, an alliance of Sudan activists that includes IRD, released an open letter to President Barack Obama from the Rt. Reverend Andudu Adam Elnail, Bishop of the...
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Rep. Wolf Tells President Obama: Arrest Sudan’s Bashir
Yesterday, September 23, the office of U.S. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) spoke out about the proposed visit of Sudan's President Omar al Bashir to the United States for the United Nations General...
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Together We Can Thunder for the People of Sudan
As part of the Act for Sudan alliance, IRD is asking you to consider joining the National Call-In Day for Sudan that takes place tomorrow, October 3, from 9AM-5PM. Act for Sudan says: As you probably...
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Brian McLaren’s Five Errors about Christian Persecution, Part One
Graduate school at the University of Maryland (recently named the 10th best party school in the United States) was quite a shock after the protected, Christian environment of my college. So in the...
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Overwhelmed by Africa
In early October I was counting down the days until my first trip to Africa. On October 18, I would fly to Nairobi for the second Global Anglican Fellowship Conference. Then I would visit South Sudan,...
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Meeting Kelly’s Friends, And Then Some!
It was Sunday, October 27. The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON2) had ended Saturday with a rousing worship service at All Saints Cathedral, but I was still in Nairobi. The next day I would...
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Act Today! National Call-In Day on Sudan/South Sudan
With just a quick telephone call to your member of Congress today, you can join thousands of caring citizens across the country to help bring peace, justice, and religious freedom to the people of...
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House Hearing Declares “Four Darfurs” In Sudan
Wednesday, February 26th's hearing in the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs was a review of U.S. policy...
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