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Muslims from Sudan accused of burning church in South Sudan

Jan 26, 2016 1:04 pm By Robert Spencer

Maybe the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch needs to hop over to South Sudan and defend Islam to the members of the Sudanese Church of Christ whose church just got burned.

An earlier church burning in Sudan
An earlier church burning in Sudan

“Muslim Extremists from Sudan Suspected of Burning Church Building in South Sudan,” Morning Star News, January 26, 2016:

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists from Sudan have been arrested in connection with the burning of a church building in South Sudan, sources said.

Members of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in the refugee settlement of Yida awoke the morning of Jan. 16 to find their worship building in flames, area Christian leaders said. Tens of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s South Kordofan state have set up homes in Yida, about seven miles from the Sudanese border.

“I learned that those who set our church on fire were sent from Sudan purposely,” said a church leader who wished to remain unnamed.

The following week his congregation of nearly 200 people held their worship service in the open air in the remains of the charred church building, a structure of unbaked bricks. Most church members are ethnic Nuba who have fled bombing of civilians in South Kordofan in Sudan’s fight with rebels.

The fire burned both the exterior and interior of the structure, destroying all chairs, a pulpit and some copies of Arabic Bibles.

Authorities arrested a Muslim suspect, identified only as Tia, who revealed the names of three other Muslim suspects, and police also captured them, including one identified only as Mohammad, sources said. One of the arrested men said they were sent from Sudan to attack churches and aid workers helping Nuba Christians from Sudan, a local Christian leader said.

The source told Morning Star News that he witnessed one of the suspects telling police, “We are sent from South Kordofan to target churches and NGOs [Non-Governmental Organizations].”

Over the past year, three church buildings were reportedly burned in Yida, home for refugees that number nearly 70,000, according to one estimate. Most of them are Nuba Christians from South Kordofan state who believe the Islamist government of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is targeting Christians and bombing churches as part of its war against rebels.

Ethnic Nuba, along with Christians, face discrimination in Sudan, where Bashir has vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) and recognize only Islamic culture and the Arabic language. The Nuba people have longstanding complaints against Khartoum – including neglect, oppression and forced conversions to Islam in a 1990s jihad – but as Sudanese citizens on the northern side of the border, they were never given the option of secession in the 2005 peace pact between northern and southern Sudan….

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Filed Under: Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, South Sudan, Sudan Tagged With: Sudanese Church of Christ


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  1. miriamrove says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    OT: Just got an email from my son. Explosions in shopping mall in Sweden. m

    • Charli Main says

      Jan 26, 2016 at 3:02 pm

      ” Asians” m ???????

  2. Angemon says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    Bashir has vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia

    “Stricter”? What does he plan to do, cut BOTH hands of a thieve? Require 8 male eyewitnesses to prove rape? Anyway, sharia is allah’s law, and it’s to be followed to the letter – making up more restrictions is as bad as ignoring some aspects of it, and both mean that…

    Oh, wait, silly me – what the news meant by “stricter” was that if Bashir orders, for example, the beheading of an apostate, he’s not following mainstream sharia, he’s just being “stricter”.

  3. Georg says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    My condolences to the those Muslims in Sudan who may, at least here or there, get a skirting glance [unspeakable backlash] over this; it’s really unbearable to think of the oppression.

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