Sudan Detains Christian Physician for His Faith

Doctor jailed for three days.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A medical doctor in Sudan was jailed from Sunday to Wednesday evening (Dec. 10) after officials learned he was a Christian, sources said. In Ad-Damazin, capital of Blue Nile state in southeastern Sudan, Yagoub Jibril Glademea on Sunday (Dec. 7) went to the state Civil Registration office to obtain […]

Christian Convert from Sudan Expelled from Home in Uganda

Vandalism in church in Port Sudan shocks Christians.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Life seemed to be looking better for a refugee from Sudan who had fled to Ethiopia and South Sudan, put his faith in Christ, and then found a job at his uncle’s business in Uganda. After fleeing war-torn Khartoum, Essam Juma Abdelkreem had first attended Sunday worship twice in […]

Sudanese Christian Family Threatened with Death in Uganda

Muslim extremists from Sudan and Somalia pursue converts.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Christian family in Uganda is living in fear after Muslim extremists from Sudan and Somalia threatened to kill them. Safaa Abdalla Yousif, who fled her native Sudan to Uganda due to conflict and religious persecution in 2016, on Tuesday (Nov. 19) received a text message from an […]

Police in Sudan Arrest Pastor in Apparent Property Grab

Officers help Muslim business interest pressure church leader.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – In an apparent attempt by a Muslim businessman in Sudan to seize church property, police on Tuesday evening (Oct. 28) arrested and jailed overnight a pastor in River Nile state, sources said. Two police officers from the state Department of Criminal Investigation arrived at the home of the Rev. […]

Parents Deported from Sudan Reunited with Children

Predominantly Christian South Sudanese families separated in crackdown.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – South Sudanese children separated from their parents in deportations from the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, have been reunited with their families in South Sudan, according to media reports. At least 71 children have been reunited with their families in the South Sudan town of Renk, Upper Nile state, Radio […]

Sudan Separates, Deports South Sudanese Women and Children

Mistreatment of long-time residents continues.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan last week deported more than 100 predominantly Christian, South Sudanese women from Khartoum in what critics say was for both religious and political reasons. At least 61 of the deported women were separated from their children, according to Radio Tamazuj, in what sources said was a blatant […]

Muslims Attempt to Seize Christian School in Sudan

Hundreds of displaced persons told to vacate facility.

JUBA, Sudan (Morning Star News) – A years-long Islamist attempt to seize a Christian school in Sudan continued this month even as people displaced by war have taken refuge in the facility, sources said. An Islamic business interest sent three Muslims who forcefully entered the embattled Evangelical School of Sudan, in Omdurman across the Nile […]

Five South Sudanese Christians Arrested in Sudan

Authorities targeting foreigners for deportation or forced relocation.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Police in North Khartoum, Sudan on Aug. 16 disrupted a funeral prayer meeting to arrest five South Sudanese Christians, church leaders said. Pastor Peter Perpeny of the Presbyterian Church of Sudan and the four other Christians were arrested from the El-Haj Yousif area of East Nile District in North […]

Sudan Destroys Church Building in Khartoum North

Demolition came without prior warning.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan on July 8 demolished a church complex in Khartoum North, sources said. With no prior warning, bulldozers and trucked accompanied by police and armed forces personnel arrived at the compound of the Pentecostal Church in the El-Haj Yousif area of East Nile District at noon and […]

Sudan Jails 19 Christians on Unfounded Allegations

SAF accuses them of supporting rival RSF.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – At least 19 Christians were arrested in Sudan’s city of Madani on various occasions in January and February, area sources said. Seven Christians were arrested by security personnel associated with the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on Jan. 21 as the group traveled from Barakat to Madani, capital of Al […]