From Episcopal Life Online-
Drawing attention to Sudan's faltering peace process, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Episcopal Church of Sudan Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul met with U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown Jan. 11 to underscore the urgency for the international community to take action to ensure that the country doesn't plunge back into civil war.
The meeting with Brown was supported by the Sudan365 campaign, a year of advocacy for Sudan that is being organized by a coalition of advocacy groups and human rights organizations. The campaign organized a Jan. 9 demonstration when hundreds of activists gathered outside Brown's residence at 10 Downing Street in London to call on the U.K. government urgently to increase their diplomatic engagement on Sudan.
In advance of their meeting with Brown, Williams and Deng were joined on Jan. 11 by Diocese of Salisbury Bishop David Stancliffe for a press conference at Lambeth Palace to draw attention to the challenges threatening Sudan five years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
"The urgency of the situation in Sudan is something which has escaped the notice of a very large number of commentators here and elsewhere," Williams told reporters gathered at his London residence. "We are as an international community in danger, I believe, of sleepwalking into a situation of real nightmare in Sudan."
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