Bishop's plea over Sudan civil war media coverage
The Bishop of Bradford has appealed for wider media coverage of the civil war in Sudan, after returning from a visit to the country.
The Sudanese army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for more than a year, in a conflict which has killed thousands and forced millions from their homes.
Bishop Howarth said the Sudanese civil war had been overshadowed in the media by the "appalling events in Ukraine and Gaza".
"The main reason Bishop Nick and I went was basically to say, 'you are not forgotten, we pray for you every day, we love you, we stand with you'," he said.
"It's awful. You hear these numbers - more than 10 million people displaced, more than three million children in danger of dying from malnutrition - but it really came home to me when we visited a camp for internally displaced people," he said.
The bishop said in the days after fighting broke out, Victoria had encountered "all these people sleeping on beaches with nothing".
