Will the Persecuted Be Forgotten by the Church?

CBN News reported a few hours ago concerning the very sad and heartbeaking situation in the Sudan.

Gordon Robertson did an interview with The Diocese of Bishop Macram Max Gassis.  The following is part of that interview and article.

Gassis says, "These are human beings destroyed by the war, traumatized by the war, forgotten by the international community…are they also going to be forgotten by the church?"

So he is helping to lead the charge to bring aid to refugees from Darfur and rebuild the ravaged south of Sudan.

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ROBERTSON: Is that going to be possible within…you know, I see that belief within the Christian faith, and I adhere to it - but how does that translate to a Muslim faith, where it seems they are bent on jihad against the infidel? Is it translatable into the faith of Islam?

GASSIS: It is through enlightenment, education, and dialogue. I would like to clarify the word dialogue. Nobody so far gave me a satisfactory definition of dialogue. Yet, people point their fingers at us, the leaders in the church, [and say] you must dialogue. I tell them, give me the definition of dialogue. And they are not able to give me a definition of dialogue. According to me, dialogue is acceptance of each other. The reciprocal respect for each other – it is a living dialogue.

When I have a school, whether I have a thousand students, and I have Christians, Muslim, and African of traditional belief - this is dialogue. When I drill wells, the water that comes out, it's not Catholic, it is not Christian - the water is for everybody. This is dialogue. Christians and Muslim and Africans of tradition are going to drink from the same source and the same well. When I make a hospital or a maternity, it is not reserved for Christian mothers, it is for everybody. This is what I call living dialogue. This here, we send a message of our creed, our faith is love in action. And that will help them.

Read the full article here.