By Brad Phillips My Thanksgiving holiday was celebrated rather quickly here in Nairobi with my family because within a few days I was headed back up into Sudan. Destination: The war-torn Nuba mountain region. This area has been under siege since the SAF forces and NCP militants began carrying out Bashir’s instruction to “clean up [...]
By Ryan Boyett, CEO Eyes and Ears Nuba Editor’s Note: Ryan Boyette is an American Christian living and working in the Nuba Mountains. His first-hand accounts have been instrumental in showcasing the brutality of Omar al-Bashir’s NCP regime in Khartoum. In the October edition of the Africa Messenger, we featured a recent update from Ryan [...]
By Brad Phillips I write these lines from Juba, the capital of South Sudan. I just completed a trip to the refugee community of Yida, which is located just south of the Nuba Mountains border. More than 60,000 Nuba have fled to Yida to escape the humanitarian crisis created by the bombing campaign of dictator [...]
By Brad Phillips On August 4th, 2011, I sat before a Congress on Capitol Hill and warned of an impending humanitarian crisis in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan if the international community did not quickly act to end the indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets by the Sudan Air Force. My testimony was based on [...]
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 [...]
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