JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities rang in the new year by bulldozing a church building outside Khartoum because it belonged to Christians of South Sudanese origin and lacked a permit, a source said. South Sudanese have been ordered to leave the country following the new republic’s secession from Sudan in July […]
Sudan Cracks Down on South Sudanese Christians
Church building demolished; student imprisoned.
January 10, 2013 By -
Sudan Bombings Kill More Nuba Christians Around Christmas
Several children dead after aerial attacks.
December 31, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Non-Arab Christians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains said they feel forgotten after Sudanese air forces killed at least 11 of the faithful in bombings before and after Christmas, according to area sources. Following bombings of non-Arab civilians in Christian villages in Sudan’s South Kordofan state from Dec. 18 to […]
Sudan Arrests Coptic Priests for Baptizing Convert
Woman who left Islam reportedly tries to flee Islamist-run state.
December 28, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have arrested two priests of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Sudan and accused them of baptizing a convert from Islam, sources said. As part of heightened persecution of Christians since South Sudan seceded from Sudan last year, Sudanese security forces on Dec. 16 arrested the Rev. […]
Algerian Christian Unknowingly Convicted, Sentenced
Convert is tried in absentia for ‘pressuring Muslim’ who urged him to return to Islam.
December 21, 2012 By -
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Without any prior notice or summons from police, a Christian convert from Islam received word on Dec. 11 that he had been convicted of pressuring a Muslim to leave his religion, he said. Mohamed Ibaouene, 36, was convicted in absentia on July 4 by a court in Tigzirt […]
Christians Killed, Church Building Destroyed in Sudan Bombing
Northern regime continues ‘ethnic cleansing’ on its own soil.
November 29, 2012 By -
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese military in the last two weeks has bombed more non-Arab people in largely Christians areas of the Nuba Mountains – killing three Christians, destroying two relief agency structures and demolishing a Catholic Church building, sources said. Dawla Angalo, 60, a member of the Catholic Church in Heiban, […]
Nuba Civilians Bombed in Christian Areas of Sudan
Khartoum said to use South Kordofan unrest for ethnic, religious ‘cleansing.’
November 16, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government has stepped up bombing of its own non-Arab civilians in Christian areas of Sudan’s South Kordofan state the past month, killing a 1-year-old baby and wounding others, sources said. Since South Sudan split from Sudan in a referendum last year, ethnic Nuba peoples in Sudan’s […]
Sudanese Bible School Re-opens amid Islamist Intimidation
Burned and ransacked in April, Christian compound faces further threats.
October 29, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Amid threats of further losses, classes resumed this month at a Khartoum Bible school and church compound that Muslim extremists set ablaze in April, an area Christian source said. Students and administrators at Gerif West Bible School in Sudan have yet to fully recover their losses from the […]
Father Fights Islamic Bias in Sudan to Visit Children
After his wife divorced him, court prohibited Christian from seeing boys.
October 23, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – After his wife’s family in Sudan urged her to become a Muslim and divorce him earlier this year, Sudanese Christian Mohammed Khidir Khalil was not allowed to see his sons, ages 3 and 5. Unless there is further opposition, however, this Saturday (Oct. 27) will be the first time the […]
Sudanese Military Kills Christian Mother in Bombing
Non-Arab Nuba Christians targeted in town in South Kordofan.
October 12, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Government bombing of ethnic Nuba civilians in a predominantly Christian town of Sudan last month – killing a mother of seven children – is further evidence that officials are trying to rid the country of Christians, area Christian leaders said. Sudanese government forces bombarded Heiban in war-torn South Kordofan […]