PPF received the following information from a ministry partner in North Sudan. The name of the individual and his/her organization has been withheld to protect their identity. Below we have posted the e-mail in its entirety as it was written. “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is [...]
Omar al-Bashir’s government launches a new campaign to further crack down on evangelistic and church activities in Sudan, as part of a calculated move towards stricter enforcement of Islamic sharia law. Read the full article at http://www.christianpost.com/news/sudan-threatens-to-arrest-church-leaders-67479/
On the evening of September 1, 2011, around midnight, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) attacked the residence of Blue Nile State Governor Malik Agar. This initial attack was quickly followed by a full scale invasion and aerial bombardment of multiple locations in Blue Nile State. The result is yet another NCP-manufactured humanitarian crisis in the Blue [...]
On August 4th, 2011, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa held an emergency meeting to discuss the ongoing attacks by the Khartoum government against the people living in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, North Sudan. Persecution Project Foundation President, Brad Phillips, was a key witness in providing testimony of the atrocities being committed [...]
The following is a very important article written on June 24, 2011 by Elizabeth Kendal of Religious Liberty Monitoring (http://elizabethkendal.blogspot.com/) regarding the current war in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan in Southern Kordofan State. We have received permission to reprint it in full. PPF’s Brad Phillips and Matt Chancey just returned from a 12-day [...]
A Long Road to the Beginning The story of South Sudan has not yet been written, but it is already one of the more gripping histories in our modern times. On January 1, 1956, the nation of Sudan officially became independent of British rule, and the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum immediately began a campaign of [...]
By Matt Chancey When did you have your first memory? I vaguely remember my nursery at home when I was probably two or three years old. Some people can remember even earlier. But a young man I recently met in South Sudan has no memory of his childhood. I met Santino on a recent trip [...]
God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. – 1 Cor 1:27a On July 9, 2011, the six-year interim period of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement will come to an end. That same day, South Sudan will mark its independence and inauguration as the world’s newest nation. This comes following fifty years [...]
Void: An empty space. What I just witnessed never happened. You won’t read about it anywhere in the news. No one is talking about it. Yet I just returned from seeing the biggest humanitarian crisis going on in Africa today… and most of the world is doing nothing about it. Several weeks ago, I wrote [...]
By Brad Phillips Last week, PPF sent out a press release reporting on the recent bombing of Darfur refugees in Southern Sudan. Although these incidents were far from the worst behavior we have witnessed from the National Congress Party in Khartoum (formerly known as the National Islamic Front), it especially hit home to us because [...]
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