By Matt Chancey The new year began very badly for South Sudan. The world’s newest nation (and one of the poorest) has suffered a fresh spate of bloody attacks between rival tribes leaving hundreds, some say thousands, of corpses in their wake. The southern government blamed much of the internal unrest on its old rival [...]
By Brad Phillips Violence opened the new year in the world’s newest country, as South Sudan struggles to unify the country following independence last July. At issue are old rivalries between tribes, which predate the last war and threaten to miscarry the embryonic state. Makeshift clinics in Pibor [...]
By Ed Lyons Editions of Africa Messenger typically report on the situation in Sudan and on the various ministry activities in which PPF is engaged. But the really beautiful thing about the ministry work is not always the work itself, but how it came to pass. PPF is 100 percent supported by the prayers and [...]
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/
Government minister says foreigners are not allowed to distribute aid to two war-ravaged states in Sudan after meeting UN humanitarian chief. First Published: 2012-01-04 Middle East Online: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=49814 KHARTOUM – Foreigners are not allowed to distribute aid to two war-ravaged states in Sudan, a government minister affirmed on Wednesday after talks with the [...]
By Brad Phillips In 1997, I started Persecution Project. Through all these years I have had the honor to participate with you in a range of programs and projects to demonstrate “Active Compassion” for the persecuted in Sudan. It has been a journey filled with great joy and pain to come alongside believers who have [...]
by Bradford Phillips and Matt Chancey While the world’s attention has been preoccupied on the fall of Libya’s Gaddafi, and the growing violence in Syria, and the continuing turmoil in Egypt, there has been more strategic and significant events happening in the Arab world of the Republic of Sudan. The last few weeks have seen [...]
By Eric Reeves [Editor's note: The war of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan State in Sudan has predictably spread to the other ethnic African-dominated Blue Nile State. Long-time Sudan expert Eric Reeves wrote an excellent commentary on this latest development, excerpts of which we have reprinted with permission for [...]
By Matt Chancey On September 25th, I spoke to a missionary friend at church who was recently evacuated from the war-torn Blue Nile State in Sudan. He confirmed to me the reports I had heard that weekend about the NCP government bombing the state capitol of Kurmuk. One of the targets in the attack was [...]
By Brad Phillips “Today we know what is right, and today we know what is wrong. The slaughter of innocents is wrong. Two million people driven from their homes is wrong. Women gang raped while gathering firewood is wrong. And silence, acquiescence and paralysis in the face of genocide is wrong.” – Senator Barack Obama, [...]
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