Tag: Sudan

Relatives of Coptic ‘martyrs’ join summit on persecuted Christians in US capital

May 11, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Converts, Copts, Donald Trump, Egypt, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Libya, Mexico, Mike Pence, Pakistan, Refugees, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, USA

A “World Summit in Defence of Persecuted Christians” has started in Washington DC, and is expected to be addressed by the US Vice-President Mike Pence today (Thursday, 11 May). It has been organised by American evangelist Franklin Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 600 participants have come from 136 countries: including Egypt, . . . Read More

360° view of forgotten war in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

March 16, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Nuba Mountains, Petr Jašek, Religious freedom, Sharia, South Kordofan, Sudan, Trauma

News agency IRIN has produced a video that offers a 360° view of the situation of the people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, a state in southern Sudan. (To experience a 360° view, play video, then “move” view by hovering your mouse.) The Nuba people, living on the border with . . . Read More

Sudan: Justice criticises NISS intelligence agency

March 3, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Human rights, Minorities, NISS, Peter Yen, Petr Jašek, Sudan, Yat Michael

Sudan’s Deputy Chief Justice has denounced “ongoing arbitrary arrests” by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). “The security apparatus should not be left to do whatever it wants,” said Justice Abdulmajid Idris, who also criticised long periods of detention without trial. The NISS has been involved in the arrest . . . Read More

Church demolition appeal due in Khartoum

March 3, 2017 Sudan Churches, Khartoum, Petr Jašek, Sudan

The Bahri Court of Appeal in Khartoum was due to hear on 1 March the case relating to a government order to demolish 27 Christian places of worship, reports Radio Dabanga. An appeal lodged on 27 February succeeded in delaying the demolition of the churches, located north and east of . . . Read More

Czech shared Sudan prison cell with Islamic State convicts who beat him up and abused him

February 27, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Petr Jašek, Sudan

A Czech Christian aid worker, freed from prison in Sudan on 26 Feb, has spoken of how the prison authorities treated him. “The first two months were probably the most severe for me because I was placed in a cell together with members of the Islamic State, who humiliated me . . . Read More

UN says 600,000 in need of food aid in S. Kordofan

February 10, 2017 Sudan Barack Obama, Blue Nile, Petr Jašek, Sanctions, South Kordofan, SPLM-N, Sudan, USA

A political impasse is delaying the delivery of aid to 600,000 people in need in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan region, writes Nuba Reports in the Huffington Post. Sudan has been bombing rebel groups based there, as well as destroying farmland and crops. Hope came from an agreed six-month ceasefire extension . . . Read More

Demolition plans for 21 Sudan church buildings

February 2, 2017 Sudan Churches, Gadaref, Khartoum, Lutheran Church of Sudan, Omdurman, Sudan

A lawyer representing four churches threatened in Oct 2016 with demolition in Sudan has uncovered plans for a further 21 places of worship to be knocked down. Middle East Concern reports that in a recent court ruling the lawyer was granted the right to see the official order for demolition. . . . Read More

Ceasefire extended in Nuba, Blue Nile, Darfur

January 25, 2017 Sudan Barack Obama, Blue Nile, Darfur, Nuba Mountains, Sanctions, Sudan

The Sudan government last week said it’s extended a “ceasefire” for another six months in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and Darfur – where it says it’s fighting rebels. “If the ceasefire holds, it would be the first time in six years of war that the Nuba people experienced a . . . Read More

Is Sudan really ready for sanctions to be lifted?

January 19, 2017 Sudan Abyei, Barack Obama, International Criminal Court, Omar al-Bashir, Petr Jašek, Sanctions, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan

One of Barack Obama’s last acts in office was to scale back a 20-year-old trade embargo on Sudan. The move has been criticised by human rights groups, which have called it “premature” and “despicable”, but has the country and its President, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, . . . Read More

Sudan government demolishes Bahri church building

January 13, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Bahri, Churches, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Petr Jašek, Sudan

A house belonging to a Sudanese church has been demolished by government officials, reports Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern. The Bahri Evangelical Church, on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, has seen a number of its buildings damaged or demolished since 2013, when a committee imposed by the . . . Read More

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