The civil war that erupted in the Sudan in April 2023 has taken a new twist with hundreds of thousands of people have been forcibly displaced, others killed, maimed, starved, with even all prospects for a fruitful future have been diminished.

This war has exceeded all expectations, while transcending this country into a place  with extreme suffering,  while being branded with a failing future.

Amidst this gloomy situation, Catholic charities have made  throughout the past years exorbitant efforts to quell the fighting and give possible aid to the ailing  Sudanese society so as to restore at least a chink of hope of stability while awaiting a permanent solution leading to peace.

His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has never forgotten the people suffering from wars and displaced. Speaking during the Angelus address on November 2, 2025, he fervently prayed for peace and respect for human dignity. He recently appealed for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian corridors in Sudan, calling for international action and prayer for the victims.

Appealing for a ceasefire, the intervention of the international community and the opening of humanitarian corridors and aid delivery in war-ravaged Sudan, he said, “With great sorrow, I am following the tragic news coming from Sudan, particularly from the city of El Fasher in the afflicted northern Darfur region,” He decried the “Indiscriminate violence against women and children, attacks on unarmed civilians, and serious obstacles to humanitarian action that are causing unacceptable suffering to a population already exhausted by long months of conflict.”

Since the start of the civil war in the Sudan, several Catholic charitable organizations have sustainably provided aid in Sudan, most notably are the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and members of the Caritas Internationalis confederation as these groups work with local partners to deliver emergency assistance and long-term development support.

The CRS provided emergency relief which includes food, shelter, and essential household items to displaced families. Further aid includes offering therapeutic food supplements for malnourished children, running treatment centers, and providing health services for mothers and children, in addition to ensuring access to clean water, repairing sanitation systems, and distributing hygiene kits, and providing urgent financial aid to newly displaced families. It is also working with local and international partners to implement programming in some of Sudan’s most hard-to-reach areas across the five Darfur states, with plans to expand to eastern Sudan in the future. 

On the other hand, Caritas Internationalis and its members support an urgent appeal to provide life-saving assistance, including clean water, food support, and protection services, in areas where other NGOs may not be present.

While the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) works through local church partners to provide food, cash, water, sanitation, and protection services to thousands of displaced individuals.

These are some of the Catholic charitable organizations that primarily operate in conflict-affected areas like Darfur, Khartoum, and Kordofan states, while relying on local church networks to deliver aid directly to those most in need. 

The humanitarian aid provided by the Catholic Church’s charities to people in need worldwide is something that deserves to be highly commended and be looked up to,  as the Catholic Church has all the time served to provide a panacea that helps in dressing the wounds of humanity suffering from man-made calamities.