Sundays for Darfur.Hundreds gathered at sites around Washington, D.C., in June and July to pray and demand justice for Darfur, Sudan. The series of public worship services on five consecutive Sundays was organized by Brian McLaren Brian D. McLaren is a prominent, controversial voice in the Emerging Church movement. He was recognized as one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America,"[1] of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Maryland, in conjunction with Sojourners, Africa Action, the Genocide genocide, in international law, the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. Intervention Fund, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Reform JudaismReligious movement that has modified or abandoned many traditional Jewish beliefs and practices in an effort to adapt Judaism to the modern world. It originated in Germany in 1809 and spread to the U.S. . "We fight about whether the Ten Commandments Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. should be displayed in front of buildings, but we fail to live out the Ten Commandments in relation to our suffering neighbors," said McLaren. "We are tired of being divided over trivialities; we believe it is time to come together over an emergency." Up to 400,000 people have been killed since the Darfur genocide began in 2003. |
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