“Light evidence presented to back heavy charges.” — An update on this story. “Judge in Sudan Rules Two Pastors Can Be Charged with Crimes Punishable by Death,” Morning Star News, July 3, 2015: JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A judge in Sudan ruled yesterday that there was enough evidence to charge two South Sudanese pastors […]
Islamic State in Sudan: “We are here for the sake of Allah”
“These young students, from Khartoum’s upper middle class, are believed to have entered Syria illegally and are currently volunteering as medics in ISIS strongholds. Five of them are students at one of Sudan’s most expensive higher education institutions, the University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST).” But…but…poverty and ignorance cause terrorism, don’t they, Mr. Kerry? […]
Imprisoned Sudanese pastors facing death penalty barred from seeing lawyers, family
The two pastors were recently moved to a notorious high-security facility in North Khartoum, Sudan, where they have been isolated since at least early June. Update on this story. “Imprisoned Sudanese Pastors Facing Death Penalty Barred From Seeing Lawyers, Family Following Visit by American Pastor,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post via Pravoslavie, June 10, 2015: […]
Sudanese Pastors accused of ‘Offending Islam’ boldly face persecution, possible execution
Pastors Yat Michael and David Yein have been imprisoned for two months with no contact with their families in the capital city of Khartoum, where numerous Christian churches have recently been desecrated. Pravoslavie, June 8, 2015 Persecutions against Christians continue in the Islamic nation of Sudan, which last year sentenced a woman to death for […]
South Sudan: Christian jailed, lashed after Muslims threaten him
Shhhh! “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013 “Pastor in South Sudan Jailed, Lashed after Radical Muslims Threaten Him,” Morning […]
Sudan: University student swaps jeans for niqab, joins Islamic State
The correlation between devoutness in Islamic observance and jihad terrorist sentiments is nearly one to one, and so the mainstream media and Islamic supremacists such as Mehdi Hasan do their best to obscure it. Reality, however, keeps breaking through. “In Sudan, an unlikely path to jihad for students,” by Khalid Abdelaziz, Reuters, March 27, 2015: […]
Sudan President: CIA, Mossad behind Boko Haram, Islamic State
“I said CIA and the Mossad stand behind these organisations. There is no Muslim who would carry out such acts.” But he doesn’t want anyone to fight against these jihad groups: “He warned that simply using violence against young radicals who fight with organisations like ISIL and al-Qaeda could lead to even more extremism.” In […]
Attorneys for Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for leaving Islam, barred from leaving Sudan
Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan because her father was Muslim but she was Christian, is now safely out of Sudan. And so it appears that Sudan’s Islamic supremacist government is taking out their anger over not being able to murder her on her lawyers. “Attorneys for Meriam Ibrahim Banned […]
Sudanese Muslim group endorses Islamic State’s caliphate
Somehow the Sudanese Muslim group Al-Attasam belKetab wa al-Sunna didn’t get the memo that the Islamic State’s caliphate is nothing like the true, peaceful and tolerant model. Why do so many groups dedicated to understanding Islam properly and implementing it in its fullness end up misunderstanding the Religion of Peace — and why do they […]
Sudanese Christian woman who escaped apostasy death sentence meets with Pope Francis
“Francis thanked Meriam, who was accompanied by her husband and two small children, for her ‘testimony of faith’ and ‘perseverance.’” A Vatican spokesman said that Francis wanted the meeting to be a “sign of closeness to all those who suffer due to their faith and practice of their faith.” One may hope that his encounter […]