"A Glory from the God"

"A Glory from the God" is the story of one womans inspiring leadership in the movement against genocide in Sudan. It is the story of Gloria White-Hammond whose spiritual journey draws her into a conflict where the brutal rape of women is a tool of war. In confronting those horrors, Gloria is forced to face the pain of her own sexual abuse nearly five decades earlier. It is through the process of her own healing that Gloria encourages all of us.

Genocide in Sudan

While a growing number of people around the world are beginning to learn about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, for the most part, the human rights atrocities in Africas largest country have gone unnoticed. The world either could not or would not take a stand against the ethnic cleansing, slavery, torture and rape that have been tools of war in Sudan for more than fifty years. The countrys single longest running conflict began in 1983 pitting Sudans Northern Islamic Fundamentalist government against a number of Christian and traditional tribes in the south that demanded autonomy. More than 2 million people were killed, and millions more were displaced before a tentative peace accord was reached in 2003. Within months of that agreement, deadly violence broke out in another of Sudans impoverished regions, Darfur in the west. The roots of that conflict like those in the south, are grounded in race, culture, land and oil. There are many other theories about the origins of the tragedy that is Sudan, but in the end what causes the conflicts may not be as important as what will stop them.