Bishop, Nobel Prize winner join in appeal for action in Darfur crisis

Published: 2004-10-28

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- A Catholic bishop, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and other religious and human rights leaders joined together at the United Nations Oct. 27 in a call for the international community to do more to end the crisis in western Sudan's Darfur region. The delegation -- which also included Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition -- asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to make a firm personal commitment to bring leadership to the United Nations to finally end the violence and suffering in Darfur. Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and others in calling for a clear U.N. mandate for the African Union to protect innocent civilians and for other financial and logistical support from the international community.

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