University Circle, Cleveland on Sunday to hear from two crisis. Speakers frequently led the chant of "No more genocide in Darfur."
In the past three years, at least 400,000 people have been groups, according to the Save Darfur Coalition.
The bloodshed is only the latest in decades of unrest in Darfur, Sudan, in Africa. A peace agreement in 2006 between the Elqasim Salih and Shakir Abdulrahman, both refugees from Darfur now living in the United States, spoke at Sunday's events. Abdulrahman's voice broke as he they destroyed his village in 2004.
And the violence hasn't stopped, he said. "A child is being killed now. As we speak, a man is being tortured, a woman is being raped.
I am asking you to imagine, to know this."
faiths offered prayers and calls to action. "Let us be the change we wish to see," said the Rev.
Daniel Budd of the First Unitarian Church, in Shaker Heights.
Darfur, which ran from April 23 to Sunday. The event at Darfur.
On Saturday actor Don Cheadle and activist John Predergast will speak at 7 p.m.
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