Tag: Nuba Mountains

Khartoum keeps 5 Christian leaders under daily surveillance

April 11, 2016 Sudan Hassan Taour, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Peter Yen, Telal Rata, Yat Michael

Sudanese authorities have, apparently against their own law, continued to keep two church leaders incommunicado since mid-December, with no official charges yet filed against them; recently Sudan has also increased the number of church leaders who must report every day to its security services. Telahoon Nogosi Kassa Rata, a leader . . . Read More

Christian leaders kept in Sudan since December uncharged, but incommunicado

February 10, 2016 Sudan Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Omdurman, Peter Yen, Telal Rata, Yat Michael

Sudanese authorities have been keeping two Christian pastors in an unknown location since mid-December, with no official charges yet filed against them. On 12. Dec., members of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) visited the family home of Telahoon Nogosi Kassa Rata, a leader of the Fellowship of University . . . Read More

Four years of bombings in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

September 2, 2015 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Blue Nile, Darfur, Khartoum, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N

A makeshift blackboard in the Nuba Mountains, where Open Doors International reports that ‘daily’ and ‘indiscriminate’ bombardment has led to the destruction of Christians’ homes, churches, schools, hospitals and crops.Courtesy Open Doors International The recent trial of nine young Christian women in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for wearing trousers . . . Read More

Sudan finds woman innocent of indecent dress

August 17, 2015 Sudan Baptists, Islamic extremism, Nuba Mountains, Sudan, Women

A Christian woman, Seema Ali Osman, was found innocent of indecent or immoral dress under Article 152 of the Sudanese Criminal Code on 16 August, reports CSW. Osman’s was the final verdict in a series of trials following the arrest in June of a group of Christian women for wearing trousers . . . Read More

Sudan: Christian women fined for ‘indecency’

August 13, 2015 Sudan Baptists, Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Nuba Mountains, Sudan, Women

Three Christian women were found guilty of indecency yesterday at Sudan’s Public Order Court following their arrest in June for wearing trousers and skirts, reports CSW. Nasra Omer Kakoum, Wegdan Aba Alla Salih and Uthan Omer Eljaily were fined 500 Sudanese pounds for indecent or immoral dress under Article 152 . . . Read More

Sudan bombs Catholic hospital

May 6, 2014 Sudan Catholics, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

A Sudanese military aircraft dropped bombs near a Catholic hospital May 1, sending patients, some of them still connected to IV bags, fleeing into foxholes in the bush. Nuba Reports has dramatic video here. Two bombing passes by the jet fighter caused only a few minor injuries and rattled the . . . Read More

Sudanese bishop pleads for end to suffering

September 25, 2013 Sudan Barack Obama, Blue Nile, Darfur, Kadugli, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, UN

Rev. Andudu Adam Elnail.United to End Genocide / Flickr / Creative Commons A Sudanese bishop has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, calling for prompt actions to save the lives of those still alive in the country’s Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Darfur regions. Rev. Andudu Adam Elnail, the Bishop . . . Read More

Sudanese authorities close Christian offices in South Darfur

May 14, 2012 Sudan Blue Nile, Darfur, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Nyala, Port Sudan, Salafism, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan

Security agents in Sudan’s South Darfur state have closed down the Nyala offices of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) and relief group Sudan Aid, sources said. Agents from the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrived at the organisations’ compound in Nyala at 8 a.m. on April 22, . . . Read More

Sudan’s aerial bombing aims at churches in Nuba Mountains

March 30, 2012 Sudan Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Refugees, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan

After Khartoum denied that it had bombed civilians earlier this month, Sudanese aerial strikes last week were aimed at church buildings and schools in Kauda, South Kordofan state, a humanitarian aid worker said. Antonov airplanes dropped bombs on Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23), destroying some houses and cattle . . . Read More

Christians targeted in Sudan’s ‘ethnic cleansing’

March 20, 2012 Sudan Episcopal Church of Sudan, Islamic extremism, Kadugli, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Refugees, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan

The “ethnic cleansing” that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has undertaken against black Africans in the Nuba Mountains is also aimed at ridding the area of Christianity, according to humanitarian workers. By targeting Christians among people who are also adherents of Islam and other faiths in the Nuba Mountains, military force . . . Read More

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