My name is Rafi, from the Nuba mountains, and my friends is Mabior from Abyei. Both of us are Sudanese children. Both of us are nine years old. 
We have a message for you this Christmas. Please listen ... meditate ... and act. 
We children do not harbour hatred and discrimination, adults instil it in us. 
We do not cultivate intolerance and fanaticism, adults to it. 
We do not enslave, rape, and declare holy war, adults practice it. 
We do not make guns, bombs, and tanks for war, adults manufacture it. 
We do not wage war, kill, torture, and assassinate, it is the doing of adults. 
We do not plant land mines and drop cluster bombs to maim innocent children, 
It is the action of adults. 
We do not use food as a weapon, it is the policy of adults. 
The adults are the source of our tragedy and of our suffering. 
The adults are the cause of our agony, extermination and death. 
We are annihilated by man-made famine; 
Thousands of us children have died, and others are just moving skeletons.
We are killed by desease, we are terrorised by aerial bombardment. 
We are orphans and refugees, we are deprived of clean water, 
And we are robbed of our dignity as human beings. 
Adults call us the future of the church and of society ... Do they really mean it ? 
We have no voice in the world of adults, we have no say and we have no power. 
We are simple and we are innocent. We are the special friends of JESUS. 
He listens to our sorrows and see our tears. We are the new children of Bethlehem. 
We have no adequate words to express our gratitude to those who saved us.
Many came to our rescue. We plead with others to do the same. 
We are the future of the church and of society. Do not be indifferent. Do not be silent. SILENCE KILL US. 
Please care and share because it is Christmas, 
It is the feast of the child Jesus, it is the feats of the children.