(Agnes Aineah. ACI Africa).
La Communauté de Sant’Egidio, une association catholique laïque basée à Rome qui se consacre à la fourniture de services sociaux et à l’arbitrage des conflits, a mis en garde contre “une situation humanitaire très grave” au Soudan, alors que les combats font rage dans ce pays du nord-est de l’Afrique.
Sud Sudan. Papa Francesco ha deciso di proteggere il vescovo Carlassare spostandolo da Rumbek a una nuova diocesi
(Faro di Roma. Redazione).
Papa Francesco ha eretto la Diocesi di Bentiu (Sud Sudan), con territorio dismembrato dalla Diocesi di Malakal, rendendola suffraganea dell’Arcidiocesi Metropolita di Juba, e ha nominato mons. Christian Carlassare, finora vescovo di Rumbek, come suo primo ordinario. Lo spostamento del presule missionario ha un reetroterra molto particolare e amaro. Comboniano, padre Christian Carlassare, è nato a Schio, in diocesi di Vicenza, 47 anni fa, e nell’aprile del 2021 è stato vittima di un agguato purtroppo organizzato da alcuni preti della diocesi che gli era stata affidata poche settimane prima. E recentemente i vescovi cattolici del Sudan e del Sud Sudan hanno chiesto alle autorità di condurre un’indagine approfondita sul ferimento a colpi di arma da fuoco del vescovo Carlassare il 25 aprile 2021. P. John Mathiang Machol, ex coordinatore diocesano della diocesi di Rumbek, è stato condannato a 7 anni di carcere dall’Alta Corte di Juba nel 2023 per aver partecipato all’attentato contro mons. Carlassare. Ma il mese scorso, la Corte Suprema ha annullato la condanna contro il sacerdote dopo che il suo avvocato difensore Malith Jokthiang ha affermato che la corte non ha trovato prove contro il suo cliente.
(Jude Atemanke. ACI Africa).
Les membres de la Conférence des évêques catholiques du Soudan (SCBC) ont exprimé leur préoccupation concernant le conflit en cours dans le pays, affirmant que la guerre civile a provoqué des destructions inimaginables et causé d’immenses souffrances à la population.
(CNA. Jonah Mckeown).
For over a year, the people of Sudan — one of the largest countries in Africa — have suffered under a brutal civil war that has reduced the capital, Khartoum, to a war zone. Amid the chaos and a complex set of competing political interests, children and the poor have been hit hardest. Just last week, the United Nations confirmed that 35 children were among those killed in one of the war’s deadliest attacks to date. All told, at least 15,550 people have reportedly been killed in the fighting and some 10 million people have been displaced, many internally. An overwhelmingly Muslim country, Catholics made up roughly 5% of the population of Sudan before the most recent war and played an important role in schools and education. But now, many missionaries and religious communities have had to flee the country, and parishes, hospitals, and schools have ceased their activities. In Sudan’s neighboring country, South Sudan, the Church maintains a large presence and remains very active in relief efforts.
(Agnes Aineah. CNA).
Peace reigns inside Dar Mariam, the residence of the Salesian Sisters in Sudan, despite the fact that it has been surrounded by heavy gunfire and bombed multiple times as war rages on in the northeastern African country.
At the community, located in Shajara, about four and a half miles from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, people displaced by the war, which has been raging there for two years now, say their relationship with God has grown.
(Catholic Herald. Charles Collins).
Britain’s leading Catholic aid agency is making an emergency appeal to support families impacted by the conflict in Sudan.
Over 8.5 million Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan since the war between rival militaries erupted in April 2023, according to the United Nations.
CAFOD is the official international aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and its workers are on the ground in Sudan and say there is a short window to act before the agricultural growing season begins in June, as fears grow of an impending – yet preventable – famine.
(Alfa y Omega – Victoria Isabel Cardiel C.).
Hoy la UE, junto con Francia y Alemania, organiza una conferencia de alto nivel en París para recabar más ayuda humanitaria y reclamar que se ponga fin a ese conflicto
La guerra civil, que arrancó hace justo un año con el enfrentamiento entre el Ejército nacional —dirigido por el general Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan— y las paramilitares Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido (RSF, por sus siglas en inglés), del general Hamdan Dagalo (alias Hemedti), ha desencadenado el mayor número de desplazados internos del mundo y una emergencia humanitaria con hambruna incluida para cinco millones de personas.
(Amélie Berthelin. ACN internacional).
Desde hace un año, la tercera guerra civil sudanesa hace estragos en un país de por sí muy debilitado. La población agoniza y la pequeña comunidad cristiana se ve cada vez más reducida.
«Hago nuevamente un llamamiento a las partes beligerantes para que pongan fin a esta guerra, que tanto daño está haciendo a la gente y al futuro del país. Recemos para que pronto se encuentren caminos de paz para construir el futuro del querido Sudán», rogó el Papa Francisco durante el Ángelus del pasado 18 de febrero.
(Agenzia Fides. Redacción).
El Sahel corre cada vez más el riesgo de convertirse en un “agujero negro humanitario” donde, junto a los desplazados internos de la región, se acoge en condiciones precarias a los procedentes de países vecinos como Nigeria y Sudán.