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Hotel Rwanda... today

The movie Hotel Rwanda let many people asking ‘how could the world do nothing while this was happening?’ Back in 2005 Brian McLaren wrote,

I realize[d] that’s why Hotel Rwanda seemed to me an even more Christian film than The Passion of the Christ. Forgive me if this sounds crazy to you, but try to understand; it evoked in me a wave of compassion for my neighbors around the world, whatever their color or tribe, whatever their religion or politics. And I hear our Lord saying, “As you have done it to the least of these … you have done it to me.”“

This article spells out why people of faith and conscience must act now to stop the genocide today in Darfur.

http://www.newint.org/features/2007/06/01/keynote/

 

An estimated 400,000 Darfurians have been killed. Three million - half the population - have been displaced. Humanitarian agencies have limited access and are barely able to operate, the region is so dangerous. Now the conflict is escalating, spilling over into Chad and Central African Republic, displacing tens of thousands more and threatening to destabilize the entire region. The rest of the world has largely stood aside and watched.”

 


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Perth, WA
Australia