JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – It was more than a year ago that Muslims in the disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan noticed that Ahmed Alnour was no longer reciting his Islamic prayers five times a day. The tribesman of the ethnic Misseriya Arabs was helping support his wife and seven children […]
Former Muslim from Sudan Forced into Hiding
Father of seven says he was miraculously healed.
March 10, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
Muslim Extremists from Sudan Suspected of Burning Church Building in South Sudan
Suspect tells police they were ‘sent’ from Sudan, source says.
January 26, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists from Sudan have been arrested in connection with the burning of a church building in South Sudan, sources said. Members of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in the refugee settlement of Yida awoke the morning of Jan. 16 to find their worship building in flames, area […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2015
Islamic violence accelerates in countries not known for religious conflict.
January 8, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist violence in countries not known for religious tensions, majority-Christian Kenya and Uganda, topped Morning Star News’ stories in 2015. While the Islamic State terrorized Christians in Syria, Iraq and Libya, and Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killed innocent civilians in the shadow of Boko Haram, in northeast Kenya Al […]
Video Released from Libya of Beheading of Christian from South Sudan
Masked man claims affiliation with Islamic State.
October 20, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A group claiming affiliation with the Islamic State (IS) announced the beheading of a Christian from South Sudan in a video posted on Sunday (Oct. 18). A masked man who carries out the killing in the video, presumably in Libya, states that he is defending Muslim brothers he claims […]
Freed Pastors Arrive Home from Sudan after Ordeal of False Charges, Travel Ban
NISS had prevented them from leaving country.
August 19, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Two South Sudanese pastors arrived home in Juba from Khartoum, Sudan today after an eight-month ordeal of imprisonment, fabricated charges of capital crimes and a ban on leaving the country. The Rev. Peter Yein Reith and the Rev. Yat Michael were acquitted of the crimes calling for the death […]
Scant Evidence Produced against Two South Sudanese Pastors in Sudan, Lawyer Says
Trial in case calling for death penalty to continue June 15.
June 1, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A court hearing yesterday in Khartoum for two South Sudanese pastors facing the death penalty was extended to today, then adjourned until June 15 to give prosecutors more time to try building a case, a defense attorney said. Prosecutors need more time to search for evidence in the trial […]
South Sudanese Church Leaders Jailed in Sudan Charged, Could Face Death Penalty
Pastor says he is trusting God will intervene on their behalf.
May 8, 2015 By - 6 Comments
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have charged two South Sudanese pastors under laws that call for the death penalty, their attorney said. National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officials have charged the Rev. Yat Michael and the Rev. Peter Yein Reith (also transliterated as Peter Yen Reith) with undermining the constitutional system […]
Young Sudanese Refugee Cast Out of Home for Leaving Islam
Convert experiences power of God amid uncertainty, instability.
May 4, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – First an 18-year-old Sudanese Muslim became a refugee from Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan state; then he received Christ and became a refugee from his family. Kuku (full name withheld) and his family, ethnic Nuba from the Kauda area, arrived at Yida refugee camp in South Sudan in 2011, shortly […]
Pastor in South Sudan Jailed, Lashed after Radical Muslims Threaten Him
Convert from Islam, native of West Darfur, was planting church.
March 27, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese pastor in South Sudan was jailed and tortured for more than three months after Islamists who tried to kill him accused him of being a spy, sources said. Adam Haron, a 37-year-old convert from Islam and a native of West Darfur, Sudan, said Muslim extremists called him on […]
Sudan Arrests Another South Sudanese Pastor
Second church leader in less than three weeks held without charges.
January 20, 2015 By - 1 Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The second pastor of South Sudanese descent in less than three weeks has been arrested without charges in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, sources said. Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) arrested the Rev. Peter Yein Reith of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church on Jan. 11 as he […]