The world risks “sleepwalking” into a humanitarian disaster as Sudan prepares for a referendum on southern independence, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, warned today.
Up to four million people of southern descent living in the north of the country could be forced out as refugees after the vote, scheduled for January next year, he said.
Dr Williams criticised the international community for “taking its eye off” the looming crisis, as rival forces of the north and south of the country edge closer to conflict.
Sort of pretentious to talk like that when he has been sleepwalking into an Anglican Communion disaster for a long, long time.
And what exactly have you been doing, Rowan Williams, to support the Anglicans of the Sudan faced with the derision and opposition of their Muslim neighbors? Speaking clearly on the moral standards which Christians uphold? Standing up for Christians faced with persecution by those using Sharia Law to oppress them? Or have you been giving support to those who say that the Anglican Church supports immorality and sexual licentiousness and un-Godly living? What do you have to say to those on the ground who pay the cost of your double-minded fickleness with their property and their lives all across North Africa and the Sudan and indeed in other parts of the world?
I agree with #1 & 2 that this sort of statement by ++RW is highly ironic, even perhaps hypocritical. But I welcome it anyway. I welcome any public attention that Sudan gets that helps raise more widespread awareness of the truly desperate plight of the sorely oppressed people of southern Sudan, many of whom are our fellow Christians, including maybe 5 million Anglicans.
It’s easy to forget that countless lives are at stake here, and the future of an entire nation hangs in the balance. In light of that fact, the pathetic foibles and failings of the ABoC pale into insignificance.
I wish this article included a quote from Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, who is a phenomenal leader and courageous man of God.
David Handy+