Dear Spirit Family,

As many of you know I am a Volunteer with Humanity Healing.. My Dear Friend Steve Gooch who is the Voice of Humanity Healing is presently teaching in Sudan.. Today he has contacted us with word that the city in which he is living is under attack.. PLEASE send up prayers and meditate on His Safety and the Safety of all concerned there during at this time..

If you would like to send Steve a personal message you can do so at one of the following sites..

http://humanity-healing. blogspot. com/

http://humanityhealing. ning. com/profile/SteveGooch

www. myspace. com/reiki_jin_kei_do

My Love & Appreciation,
~Rain

Here is a message from Steve that he posted to the Blog Spot listed above:

As I type this, safe in my cosey little apartment, outside I can hear the sound of helicopter gunships...Not far down the road from me, just past the UN compound, the sound of heavy artillery can be heard.. A sole voice is now calling out something over a tanoy from a nearby mosque. Khartoum is under attack.. A couple of hours ago my local shopkeeper told me as best he could in very broken English and much rapid-fire Arabic, that there was gun fire in the city of Omdurman. City, yes it is, but in reality a suburb of Khartoum. It is the old Mahdi capital of Sudan which has just, it is being said on Reuters, been taken by the Darfuri rebel force JEM (Justice and Equality Movement). Never before has a Darfuri rebel force managed to enter the capital. Never before has the city been under attack by thousands of men drawn from the disgruntled masses of opressed Darfur. Taking Omdurman gives them control of all of the Nile bridges and thus access to the seat of government. If the palace falls, Sudan falls. President Beshir's palace sits just across the river from Omdurman. You could shooot the windows out from the other bank I would have thought.



It is in the very heart of modern Khartoum


This is a dark time in Khartoum. For years, the muslim government has battered and mutilitated a part of its own country and now it looks as if that government is going to reap that which it has sown.



The inevitable has arisen


A neighbour from Bristol in the UK, married to a Sudanese woman just informed me that as far as the military are concerned, this is the start of a full on war.



He should know - his father-in-law is a Sudanese military commander


What will happen over the next few hours, no one knows. Perhaps the rebels will be driven back. Perhaps the government will simply relinquish power...who knows? It is not a good time to be in Sudan..Khartoum...the army is in disarray as many of them, are in fact Darfuri's themselves and may join forces with the rebels. The rest? There is nothing worse than an army in retreat through civilian areas...
The people of Sudan are beautiful, peaceful and generous people. They have been villified by the world for a very long time. Now they must it seem suffer through another tragedy of massive proportions...
So, my friends on myspace...send your blessings, your good wishes, your prayers, your hopes and you love for the people of Sudan and Darfur and all of the impoverished people outside my window as I type this...they need your thoughts and your love now......this is a country that may be about to go up in flames...the next few hours will tell. I may not have the opportunity to post a follow up to this. Right now I am sitting tight in the knowledge that I have a British passport, access to a bus and my embassy and a UN compound not far away....
Blessings,
Steve

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forwarded with love♥
Spirit to Spirit