Global Day for Darfur, Methodist Church Calls for International Action
The Methodist Church has called for immediate international action to prevent further killings in the Darfur region of Sudan as cities around the world prepare for the Global Day for Darfur on Sunday 17 September.
Steve Hucklesby, Methodist secretary for international Affairs, said: "Violence in Darfur has created one of the worst humanitarian disasters today with over 200,000 people killed and millions displaced.
"We should not let the challenges of military intervention in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East cause us to fall shy of intervention in Sudan.
"Darfur is a different situation and an effective peacekeeping force could transform the situation.
