Faith Outreach

Darfur: A Call to Action is a 20 minute documentary film produced by the Save Darfur Coalition. The film provides background on the genocide in Darfur and explores what the major religions tell us about our responsibility to our brothers and sisters there. You can watch the video by pressing play below, or you can order the DVD.

Featuring interviews with Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, President Elect of the National Council of Churches USA; Bishop John Ricard, chairman of the ad-hoc committee for the Church of Africa of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth; Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America; Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston and founder of a humanitarian women’s group in Sudan, and Darfuri survivors of the genocide, the film implores viewers to take action and join the Save Darfur community.

When you order the film, you will receive a packet of materials to host a viewing with your community of faith-- including discussion guides for Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities and an action guide to help your community respond. The contents of the packet are also available for download below.

Materials

• Action Guide (pdf)
• Discussion guide for Christian Congregations (pdf)
• Discussion guide for Muslim Communities (pdf)
• Discussion guide for Jewish Congregations (pdf)
• Participant Bios (pdf)

Check out what others are doing to motivate communities of faith to save Darfur:

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• In Search of Freedom: A Passover Seder for Darfur (638K PDF). An interfaith seder guide edited by Rabbi Or N. Rose and Tamar Grimm of Hebrew College in Newton Center, MA.
• Darfur Calls (1MB PDF). A play by Michael Hardy, Kathleen Kardon, and Rachelle Neuman of Temple Beth-El in San Antoni, TX.
• A Concert for Social Justice. Hosted by Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pottstown, PA.
• Passover Action Packet. Original artwork and action items, based on the seder plate, for discussion about the plate’s symbols and their meaning to Darfur activism today. By Jewish World Watch.
• A Prayer for Darfur. From Covenant Community Church.
• The good Samaritan. A video from the First Baptist Church of Magnolia, TX:

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