Tag: Nuba Mountains

Sudanese church leader charged with apostasy

October 26, 2018 Sudan Apostasy, Darfur, Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Nyala, Police, Sudan

Yousef denied to recant his Christian faith and now faces apostasy charges for which he can receive the death penalty. (Photo: UNAMID via Flickr; CC 2.0)

A Sudanese church leader is scheduled to appear in a Darfuri court on Sunday, 28 October, on charges of apostasy, after he refused to recant his faith while in police custody, Middle East Concern (MEC) reports. Tajadin Idris Yousef was the leader of the group of 13 Sudanese Christians taken . . . Read More

Freed Czech charity worker recalls finding hell and heaven in Sudan’s jails

July 13, 2018 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Islamic State, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Petr Jašek, Prisons, Sudan, Sudanese Church of Christ

The Czech aid worker who spent 14 ½ months behind bars in Sudan has said he counted his experience a “privilege” because it enabled him to share his Christian faith with Sudanese prisoners, and praised the country’s “very courageous” Christian minority. Petr Jašek also told World Watch Monitor that two . . . Read More

Sudan extends ceasefire with rebels

January 8, 2018 Sudan Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

An extension to Sudan’s ceasefire with rebel fighters in the Kordofan region has given an opportunity for communities there to plant for this year’s harvest and avoid severe food shortages. Sudan’s president has extended the unilateral ceasefire until the end of March, reports Reuters. The latest break in Sudan’s long-running . . . Read More

Ceasefire holds but food shortage threatens Sudan’s Nuba people

November 14, 2017 Sudan East Africa, Education, Nuba Mountains, Sanctions, South Kordofan, SPLM-N, Sudan

A young girl grinds some grain in the shade of her home in the Nuba Mountains. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The war planes may have gone and the bombings stopped, thanks to a ceasefire, but the people of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains are now battling another enemy: hunger. Six years of civil war between Sudan’s government troops and the SPLM-N rebels, fighting for self-determination, has destroyed communities and infrastructure in the . . . Read More

Sudan: Christian refugee children made to recite Muslim prayers to get food

September 6, 2017 Sudan Nuba Mountains, Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan

Christian children in a Sudanese refugee camp are having to recite Islamic prayers before receiving food, according to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). A source, who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons, told ACN: “We have heard stories where children are conditioned to say . . . Read More

Sudan’s rights record in spotlight ahead of US talks on easing sanctions

July 3, 2017 Sudan Human rights, Mariam Ibrahim, Nuba Mountains, Sanctions, USA

Sudan's government continues with the gradual confiscation of properties belonging to, among others, the SCOC and SEPC in Bahri (Khartoum North) and Omdurman. In June, Sudanese church leaders risked going public with their concerns by sending an open letter to the government.

The US Embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, says it is still “very concerned” about Sudan’s human rights record, including restrictions of religious freedom, ahead of talks next week about the potential lifting of economic sanctions. In a statement on its Facebook page on 30 June, the Embassy said it . . . 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

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

Sudanese pastors pressured to ‘inform’ or stand trial

December 16, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Apostasy, Blue Nile, Darfur, Hassan Taour, Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Petr Jašek, Refugees, Sharia

Forty-eight-year-old father of three Rev. Yamane Abraha received an ultimatum in Khartoum following a trip to Ethiopia in the autumn of 2015. “[Sudanese government] security threatened me, saying I would have to appear in court either as a witness, or an accused,” the Evangelical Baptist Church of Khartoum pastor told . . . Read More

Sudan detains 6 Christians, threatens to demolish 5 churches

October 12, 2016 Sudan African Union, Churches, Episcopal Church of Sudan, Gadaref, Hassan Taour, Kadugli, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

Sudan has detained three church leaders and three church members, meanwhile warning five churches of impending demolition. The six, from the Evangelical Church in Wad Medani (200km southeast of the capital, Khartoum), were briefly arrested on Sunday (9 Oct.) after refusing an order to hand over to the government a . . . Read More

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