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The AMEN Projects (Artist’s Movement to Engage Nonviolence) are part of a multi-religious committee of artists, architects, and human rights activists seeking justice for a recent Church burning incident which occurred in Khartoum, Sudan. We have committed ourselves to producing all the art work for the rebuilding of the Church and its adjunct facilities. The work featured iconic religious images representing the peace, harmony, and tolerance religions strive to establish.
Since responding to this incident, we have expanded AMEN to tackle issues regarding religious and ethnic intolerance in similar communities in Africa. AMEN uses art as its primary means of combatting ethnic and religious conflicts. Art works to promote healthier communities. We pledge to work on many other projects to forward this mission.
The project team is composed of Khalid Kodi (Adjunct Professor of Art at Boston College and Massachusetts College of Art), ElRayah Kodi, Sean Hackel, Kyle Craven, Anthony Ford, Amou Ajang, Diane Kim, and Helen Zhang.
Background
On April 21, 2012 hundreds of Muslim fanatics burned down a Catholic Church in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, in the Al-Jiraif district. The violence resulted from increasing border tension between the predominantly Muslim country of Sudan and recently independent, mainly Christian nation of South Sudan. The Church also functioned as a prominent educational and residential facility mostly used by southerners. The incident has been widely covered by international media (please see links attached). At the same time of the Church burning, reports indicate that warplanes of Khartoum’s fanatical warmongering dictatorship bombed villages near a major town in South Sudan. There is increasing fear that these nations may engage in a full-scale war in the near future over dispute of border demarcation, Southern Sudanese living in North Sudan, the sharing of natural resources and oil revenues amongst other issues. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, wants to institute stricter Sharia law threatening the well-being of all Christian inhabitants and other liberal Sudanese living in Sudan.
Since responding to this incident, we have expanded AMEN to tackle issues regarding religious and ethnic intolerance in similar communities in Africa. AMEN uses art as its primary means of combatting ethnic and religious conflicts. Art works to promote healthier communities. We pledge to work on many other projects to forward this mission.
The project team is composed of Khalid Kodi (Adjunct Professor of Art at Boston College and Massachusetts College of Art), ElRayah Kodi, Sean Hackel, Kyle Craven, Anthony Ford, Amou Ajang, Diane Kim, and Helen Zhang.
Background
On April 21, 2012 hundreds of Muslim fanatics burned down a Catholic Church in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, in the Al-Jiraif district. The violence resulted from increasing border tension between the predominantly Muslim country of Sudan and recently independent, mainly Christian nation of South Sudan. The Church also functioned as a prominent educational and residential facility mostly used by southerners. The incident has been widely covered by international media (please see links attached). At the same time of the Church burning, reports indicate that warplanes of Khartoum’s fanatical warmongering dictatorship bombed villages near a major town in South Sudan. There is increasing fear that these nations may engage in a full-scale war in the near future over dispute of border demarcation, Southern Sudanese living in North Sudan, the sharing of natural resources and oil revenues amongst other issues. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, wants to institute stricter Sharia law threatening the well-being of all Christian inhabitants and other liberal Sudanese living in Sudan.
