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Save Darfur Rallies

On April 30th, there will be a national rally in Washington, DC to draw attention to the on-going crisis in Darfur. "The Sudanese Government, using Arab ‘Janjaweed’ militias, its air force, and organized starvation, is deliberately and systematically killing the black Sudanese of Darfur,” reports darfurgenocide.org. The Save Darfur Coalition states:

Button_rally_1Nearly three years into the crisis, the western Sudanese region of Darfur is acknowledged to be a humanitarian and human rights tragedy of the first order. The humanitarian, security and political situation continue to deteriorate: atrocities continue, people are still dying in large numbers of malnutrition and disease, and a new famine is feared. According to reports by the World Food Program, the United Nations and the Coalition for International Justice, 3.5 million people are now hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced due to violence, and 400,000 people have died in Darfur thus far. The international community is failing to protect civilians or to influence the Sudanese government to do so.

Local rallies will also be held across the country. In Portland, a rally will be held that afternoon at Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Conservative evangelical Christians and mainline Christians have joined together to put pressure on the United States government and the rest of the world to do more in this crisis.

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