The Bishops of Bradford and Leeds recently visited Sudan, going against UK government advice.
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 Right Revd Toby Howarth visited the country last week with the Right Reverend Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds. "It's almost like the bandwidth of media and governments around the world has just got so stretched," he said."But something which is this big, yet hardly makes it to our news feeds, is extraordinary to me," he added."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.
Bishop Howarth said seeing the camp, where 800 families lived in tents, had made things seem "very real" to him.Nearly five million people in Sudan are close to famine as the country's civil war passes the one-year mark
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