An Episcopalian Pastor from Nuba Mountains called on the government of South Sudan and the international community to help the people of Nuba Mountains who are dying of hunger.
The Committee of Nuba Mountains’ Churches in Juba organised on Saturday a day of prayer and fasting to seek God’s intervention to rescue the people in the volatile region.The head of the organizing committed Pastor Haroun Musa Nasir told CRN that they organized the fasting and prayer in response to the news coming from the area that people are dying of hunger.
He said the people of Nuba Mountains are suffering and they are now eating three’s leaves.
Pastor Musa added the people have nothing to eat because they did not cultivate this year.
The war and Sudanese government stopped humanitarian organizations to supply food to the civilians in the area.
Pastor Musa urged the government of South Sudan and the international community to look into the suffering of the people of Nuba Mountains and find ways of help them.
He said the world should pay attention to the war in the Nuba Mountains, the Blue Nile and the Darfur.
The committee secretary Awatif Adam Anoor said women in Nuba Mountains suffered for the last 21-year civil and continue to go through the pain up to now.
She said her message to world is to look into the suffering of the Nuba Mountains women by stopping the war.
About 70 believers from Nuba Mountains, South Sudan and Kenya joined the call for prayer for God to rescue the people suffering from Khartoum’s wars.