Source: The Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/171938-8292-047.html
On August 21, 2004 The Indianapolis Star reported on Indianapolis-area religious leaders involved in the national Interfaith Day of Conscience about the crisis in Sudan: "The Rev. Darren Cushman-Wood couldn't stand on the sidelines anymore -- not after hearing the stories of rape and murder, of nearly 30,000 people being killed and more than a million living in squalid refugee camps. The senior pastor of Speedway United Methodist Church knew he had to do something to make people aware of the horror that is happening in the African country of Sudan -- a situation that worldwide humanitarian organizations are calling 'the world's gravest emergency.' 'There's the moral obligation,' Cushman-Wood says about shedding light on the crisis in Sudan, where government-backed Arab militias are killing and displacing African tribal farmers. Cushman-Wood has organized a vigil about the Sudan crisis for 11 a.m. Wednesday on Monument Circle. The vigil ties in with Wednesday's national Interfaith Day of Conscience, being observed in churches, synagogues, mosques and community centers across the country."