JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – After her family in Khartoum, Sudan nearly buried her alive for leaving Islam and authorities imprisoned her for six months, a Sudanese Christian thought she might find refuge in Ethiopia. She had fled to Ethiopia in 2010, five years after putting her faith in Christ. By the following year, […]
Sudanese Woman Faces Ordeal as Convert from Islam
Long before current crackdown in Sudan, Muslim society punished ‘apostates.’
September 20, 2013 By -
Sudan Tracking Down Converts from Islam in Purge of Christianity
Christian flees country after weeks of threats from authorities.
July 12, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Christian has fled the country after authorities in Khartoum threatened to kill him for refusing to divulge names of converts from Islam, sources said. The Christian, a native of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains area, left the country last month after officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service […]
Sudan Intensifies Arrests, Deportations of Christians
Interrogations include threat to bury ministry group members alive.
April 30, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan, April 30, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Sudan has stepped up its targeting of Christians for deportation, with interrogation including threats to bury them alive, sources said. Besides the deportation to South Sudan of the secretary general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference on April 12, other Christians have been targeted in […]
Bombings in Sudan Kill Christians, Destroy Church Building
Sudanese government continues terrorizing its own citizens.
March 27, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government’s bombing of predominantly Christian, ethnic Nuba civilians in South Kordofan state has taken more lives the first three months of this year – possibly including Muslims, sources said. Two civilians were killed and 12 seriously wounded on March 19 when a Sudan government Antonov airplane dropped […]
Estranged Christian Father Struggles in Harsher, Hard-line Sudan
Convert from Islam whose wife divorced him can now visit children – with caution.
February 26, 2013 By -
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – Mohammed Khidir Khalil Hassan, a Sudanese convert from Islam, has to be careful what songs he sings to his sons. Nearly a year ago, after his wife left him and Christianity behind, a Sudanese court had ruled that as a convert from Islam he was forbidden to see his […]
Christian Bookstores Raided, Church Buildings Demolished in Sudan
Authorities confiscate literature, arrest personnel; church leader beaten.
February 22, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Having deported scores of foreign Christians and demolished several church buildings in the past few months, Sudan continued ridding the country of Christianity this week by raiding Christian bookshops in Khartoum and arresting Christians, sources said. Men who described themselves as agents of Khartoum State Security on Monday […]
Sudan Cracks Down on South Sudanese Christians
Church building demolished; student imprisoned.
January 10, 2013 By -
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 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. […]
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, […]