IRD, @HudsonInstitute Premiere New Film about Genocide in the Sudan
Contact: Jeff Walton 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell What: Washington premiere of “Across the Frontlines: Ending the Nuba Genocide” Who: IRD, End Nuba Genocide Alliance,...
View ArticleA Time to Act
(Photo credit: Act for Sudan) By Faith McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) In the coming weeks, I am going to share some insights from this past week’s Sudan Emergency Action Summit sponsored by Act for Sudan....
View ArticleTwenty 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...
View ArticleCongressman 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...
View ArticleObama 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...
View ArticleA 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 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...
View ArticleSudan’s Marginalized People Working Together
From left: Daowd Salih, Faith McDonnell, Khalid Gerais, Ibrahim Ahmed, Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Walid Phares, and Gregory Simpkins. (Photo credit: IRD) In this letter, I could tell you about...
View ArticleA Year of Bombs and Silence
The following article appeared on the Front Page Magazine website and was posted with permission. Nuba women and children live constantly in fear of an attack (Photo credit: SavetheNuba.com) For...
View ArticlePress Release: IRD Joins Public Coalition Letter Opposing U.S. Visit of Sudan...
IRD PRESS RELEASE The Institute on Religion and Democracy September 20, 2013 Contact: Jeff Walton office - 202-682-4131 | cell - 202-413-5639 | jwalton@TheIRD.org IRD Joins Public Coalition Letter...
View ArticleIt’s Not a Happy Anniversary
IRD Joins in Letter to United Nations Security Council on the Tenth Anniversary of the Security Council’s referral of the genocide in Darfur to the International Criminal Court. Today, March 31, 2015...
View ArticleFour Years of Madness
The bombs began to drop on June 5, 2011. The government of Sudan began what they have openly referred to as their “final solution” for the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan. Four years later, the...
View ArticleSnookered by Sudan (When Being Innocent as a Dove is Not Enough)
(This article was originally published by the Philos Project on June 5, 2015, and is reprinted with permission.) Today in the Islamic Republic of Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, two Christian pastors,...
View ArticleIRD Condemns South Africa’s Failure to Arrest Indicted War Criminal President...
Institute on Religion and Democracy Press Release June 15, 2015 Contact: Jeff Walton office: 202-682-4131, cell: 202-413-5639, e-mail: jwalton@TheIRD.org “It has been five years since the ICC brought...
View ArticleVideo: Genocide, Year Five, in Nuba Mountains
Five years ago today, June 6, 2011, the Islamist Republic of Sudan began an attack on the people of the Nuba Mountains that continues right now as you read this post. When I first started receiving...
View ArticleYou Can Join the Fight to Stop Genocide in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
UPDATE: I had not finished including links for this blog post Friday so planned to post it on Monday. Today, as I prepare to post it, I know that everyone’s mind is on our own most recent horrific...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Please Don’t Lift Sudan Sanctions!
An Open Letter to The Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, The White House, Washington, DC: Dear President Trump: We the undersigned, American citizens, genocide survivors and...
View ArticleIRD Urges President Not to Follow Obama Administration on Sudan
Institute on Religion and Democracy Media Advisory October 3, 2017 Contact: Jeff Walton office: 202-682-4131, cell: 202-413-5639, E-mail: jwalton@TheIRD.org “The Khartoum regime is, and has been for...
View ArticleCarnage Continues Against Christians in Central African Republic
It seems as if every month we learn of new atrocities being committed against Christians in the Central African Republic. In early September it was reported that at least 42 were killed during attacks...
View ArticleWhat About Sudan?
Everyone is hopeful. Hoping against hope? For so long the marginalized people of Sudan have suffered under the National Islamic Front regime of Omar al Bashir. For so long those of the Nuba Mountains,...
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