my colleague wendy griffith starts us off. >> lord! >> for reporter: the global day of prayer has been inviting the world's christians to pray together and the church has responded. >> give my people who are called by my name to humble and serve. >> to seek my faith and turn from their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land. >> praying in open air stadiums, city halls and cathedrals and seeking out the high places on every continent. >> here we are standing today looking out over africa from the highest point. >> crying out to god in repentance and seeking reconciliation. >> asking forgiveness in the way in which charismatics and pentecostals. >> we forgive you. [applause]. >> i come in repenitence and pray you forgive us. >> organizers predict hundreds of christians in more than 200 nations will gather to pray on pentecost sunday. for 90 days, christians will go to work in their communities helping the poor and building up neglected communities. to bring comfort to the broken hearted and t

hello everyone, i am wendy griffith. george thomas is on assignment. on the north region in sudan, dictator is waging war. >> cathedral was burned and church of christ was burned as well. and my house was firednd chaplin skipped through a window and arrested some times later and tortured. my people have scattered, my staff scattered all over. really very terrible. >> that is bishop of the episcopal church of sudan. church and home destroyed and flock scattered. happening in the town of kadubly, an oil-rich area of sudan. ground troops attacked the city. dozens dead and 60,000 fled homes. the north wants to grab the oil and destroy the religious and ethnic populations there. >> arabs dominanting the power and they don't riot. christians want to share -- because the christians, most christians are black. that is why they. >> fighting is keeping humanitarian agencies from bringing food and water to those displaced by the fighting. he is calling on u.s. and international community to stop attacks so aid canning get to the victims. joining us from washingto

and welcome, everyone, to christian world news, i'm wendy griffith, tom is on assignment. some question if the u.s. is pulling out too soon, among them are religious rights groups who say afghanistan still has a long way to go guaranteeing religious freedom, after beans who live islam to follow christ have been jailed and threatened with a death sentence. they're providing medical treatment in afghanistan, in 2007, the group -- murdering two of them before releasing the rest. joining us now is the policy director from the u.s. commission on international religious freedom, he's just back from afghanistan, joshing sis, it seems like there's hardly any religious freedom in afghanistan today, will it be worse bh the u.s. pulls out? >> that's a great question, i's critical that the u.s. government as it's looking towards 2014 works to establish safeguards, that the after began government will respect for the religious freedoms for all afghans, if the taliban were to ever come back to power, it would have devastating consequence, all afghan nao*ez for every state >> why aren't