This is from The Dispatch:

But with international focus trained on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, comparatively little attention has been paid to what has become the largest displacement and food crisis in the world. Neglect of the conflict has driven international media to continually label Sudan the “forgotten” crisis.

There’s no shortage of suffering. There have been credible reports of war crimesfrom both sides, rape as a weapon of war, and ethnic cleansing. Some of the same people who escaped genocide in Darfur, a region of Western Sudan, in 2003 are once again fleeing for their lives. Now, a huge swath of the country faces famine and starvation—some families have reportedly resorted to eating balls of wet dirt to stave off hunger.

More than 10 million people are internally displaced inside Sudan and more than 2 million refugees have fled the country to neighboring Chad, as well as to Egypt and South Sudan, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration. The death toll is difficult to estimate: The lower bound, likely a dramatic undercount, is some 15,000 deaths. Tom Perriello, the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan appointed in February, recently estimated that as many as 150,000 people have been killed.

We all have “conflicts du jour” it seems. It’s the ongoing ones we don’t pay attention to.

There are a lot of progressive folks I know that are right to make noise about Gaza. It is crushing the amount of life lost. But it’s also convenient because it can give a platform for the current whipping horse they like: colonialism. It’s a conflict where they can paint in broad brush strokes about colonialism and oppression. Progressives love stark lines because the base of their belief is “us vs. them.”

A lot of “conservative” folks (yes, that will stay in quotes from now on) are right to make noise about the suffering inflicted on Oct. 7 in Israel. But, it is a dichotomy as well. Deep theological ties these “conservatives” don’t fully understand tie in Israel with “God’s plan” (somehow) so it’s important to support Israel no matter what.

But the Sudan? And it’s been a decades long struggle that largely goes ignored because there aren’t clear lines progressives or “conservatives” can draw. 10 million displaced. Possibly 150,000 dead over the cycle of this conflict.

But it’s not attention grabbing.

This is one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our time… and it barely blips on our radars.

I am not asking for political action. Lord knows the U.S. government takes enough blame for not getting involved… or getting too involved.

These are matters of prayer. Prayer is needed because God’s sees what everyone else is ignoring. He hears the cry of the oppressed, and those cries are not just Palestinian, or Israeli, or Ukrainian.