U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman interact with officials during a "coffee ceremony" at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
"We're working on that. We started about 30 minutes after you explained to us the great importance of that. I view it differently now than I did just a day ago," Trump added.
Trump's efforts come after Pope Leo XIV also called attention to the persecution of Christians in Sudan and elsewhere on Tuesday.
"In various parts of the world, Christians suffer discrimination and persecution. I think especially of Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mozambique, Sudan, and other countries from which we frequently hear of attacks on communities and places of worship," the Pope wrote in a statement.
TRUMP HAS 'LEVERAGE' TO STOP SUDAN KILLINGS AS SATELLITE IMAGES REVEAL MASS DEATHS: YALE RESEARCHERS
Members of the Sudanese army's Special Mission Forces batallion in the Northern State hold a parade in Karima city. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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"The fall of El-Fasher to the RSF is a defining moment in Sudan’s brutal civil war", Mariam Wahba, research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital. "It marks the militia’s full control of the Darfur region and leaves Sudan effectively split in two."
The U.N. reports that "over 21 million people across Sudan are facing high levels of acute food insecurity — the largest such crisis in the world." The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) found that famine is ongoing in the now-captured El-Fasher and in Kadugli, South Kordofan, with families trapped and surviving on leaves, animal feed and grass.
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