Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has provided an additional $15,000 emergency relief aid for the troubled region of Darfur, Sudan, where according to the United Nations the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world" is unfolding.

PWRDF channeled its grants (which now total $50,000) to Darfur through Action by Churches Together (ACT), an ecumenical alliance of churches responding to emergency needs worldwide, of which it is a member.

According to the UN, as many as 50,000 people have died and 1.2 million others forcibly displaced after more than a year of violence blamed on the Janjaweed, a pro-government militia armed by the Sudanese government as part of its military strategy to contain rebel groups in Darfur.

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Article from the Anglican Journal, Canada