According to human rights activists and the Sudanese diaspora, the region of Southern Kordofan in Sudan is a new Darfur in the making.
They say the government in Khartoum is waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the region's Nuban people.
One Anglican bishop church was ransacked while he was in the US.
Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.