Hope for peace keeps Sudanese Anglican priest among his people

[World Council of Churches] Every Sunday, the Rev. Daramali Ismael Gabriel Abudigin leads a two-hour church service in Tawila, a small town in western Sudan’s Darfur region.

The 45-year-old Anglican priest is the only church pastor in a town that recently absorbed thousands of internally displaced people fleeing war and famine in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, and the Zam Zam Camp on its outskirts.

Abudigin arrived in Tawila with a group of Christians after bomb, gun and drone attacks forced the closure of his church in El-Fasher, where he was the last priest standing when all other clerics had fled.

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