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Police beat, arrest evangelist in Sudan

January 20, 2012 Sudan Khartoum, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church

Police this week beat and arrested a church leader in Khartoum, sources told World Watch Monitor. James Kat of the Evangelical Church of Sudan was arrested on Tuesday morning (Jan. 17), with officers beating him as they took him to a North Division police station, the sources said. He was . . . Read More

Sudan threatens to arrest church leaders

January 18, 2012 Sudan Darfur, Khartoum, Kosti, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Sudanese Church of Christ

Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments has threatened to arrest church leaders if they carry out evangelistic activities and do not comply with an order for churches to provide their names and contact information, Christian sources said. The warning in a Jan. 3 letter to church leaders of the . . . Read More

Top 10 Stories of 2011

January 6, 2012 Global News -- No Particular Country Abyei, Afghanistan, Al-Shabaab, Aswan, Berom, Bogor, Boko Haram, China, Converts, Egypt, GKI Yasmin, Hosni Mubarak, Indonesia, Iran, Java, Kabul, Kadugli, Laos, Mogadishu, Nigeria, Omar al-Bashir, Shahbaz Bhatti, Shouwang Church, Somalia, Sudan, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Taliban, Youcef Nadarkhani

Unceasing, accelerating incidents of bloodshed in Nigeria topped World Watch Monitor’s top 10 news stories of 2011 as Boko Haram and other Islamic extremists lashed out at Christians. Following this top news story was the assassination of Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member in March 2011; the upholding of the death . . . Read More

Persecution increased most in Sudan, Nigeria, report says

January 4, 2012 Global News -- No Particular Country Abyei, Afghanistan, Alexandria, Arab Spring, Blasphemy, Blue Nile, Boko Haram, China, Copts, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Maspero, Nigeria, Omar al-Bashir, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Yemen

Sudan and northern Nigeria saw steeper increases in persecution against Christians than 48 other nations where Christians suffered abuse last year, according to an annual ranking by Christian support organization Open Doors. Sudan – where northern Christians experienced greater vulnerability after southern Sudan seceded in a July referendum, and where . . . Read More

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