The Metropolitan of Nubia, Savvas, spoke of the agonizing days they spent trapped in the building of the Metropolis in Khartoum and the dramatic hours until their release from Sudan, which is rocked by violent, civil strife.

Fighting is raging in Sudan, with the army carrying out airstrikes even in districts of Khartoum, in an attempt to wipe out paramilitary troops of the elite "Rapid Reaction Force" who tried to seize the Presidential Palace as well as the capital's international airport.