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Showing posts with label Sudan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sudan. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2025

War on Christianity > Turkey is labeling Christian leaders as national security threats; Sudan Muslims try again to take over Christian school

 

Turkey Classifies Christians as ‘National Security Threats,’ Prompting Deportations and Global Concern

Turkey is labeling Christian leaders as national security threats, leading to widespread deportations and renewed fears of religious discrimination globally and sparking growing international concern. 
 Oct 15, 2025



Have you ever been persecuted for your faith? If you haven't, you're among the few. If you have, you're in the majority. Sadly, this persecution isn't just happening in the U.S., but all over the world. At the top of the list is Turkey's recent classification of Christian leaders and missionaries as "national security threats." Deporting hundreds of foreign Christians and blocking their return with this label, the international legal advocacy group reports that this move has led to deportations and renewed fears of religious discrimination. 
Since 2020, over 350 foreign Christian workers and their families have been barred from the country under these threats. Internal security codes N-82 and G-87, according to the ADF International reports, prevent re-entry or deny residency permits, most times without charges or evidence of wrongdoing. Such persecution isn't just unfair, but highly common in other countries such as the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Latin America, and Europe. 
Today, advocates and human rights organizations are attempting to take a stand against a multi-year issue. Again, since 2019-2020, Turkey has deported dozens of Christians, often without a valid reason or explanation. In fact, ADF International reports that "Christians are the most persecuted religious group internationally, and yet this issue receives limited attention from the international community.  In Turkey, the government is systematically targeting Christians and their families by banning their reentry into the country, despite their long-term legal residence."
Turkish authorities may continue to cite "security concerns" under vague laws, but Christians continue to argue that this persecution is due exclusively to their expression and commitment to faith. Not so sure? Consider the case of Andrew Brunson, which began in October 2016. After being imprisoned for two years, Brunson was accused of being involved with the Fethullah Gülen movement. Turkish government authorities blamed this discrepancy and continued to hold Brunson hostage in harsh conditions and with potential 35-year sentences. It was not until October 2018, following significant pressure from the United States government, that Brunson walked free.  
International Christian Concern, one of many advocacy groups on the frontlines of cases like Brunson's, explains this situation best: The deportations and imprisonments aren't about security, they're about silencing Christians. As the U.S. and European religious freedom organizations continue to raise alarms, Christians must stand on guard: “Turkey’s targeting of Christians raises serious concerns about freedom of religion or belief" (USCIRF). 
The Church has always faced persecution, but cases like these remind us of the need for immediate intercession, fasting, and prayer. Will we stand for the gospel even in the face of advancing hardship? Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 reveal to us that persecution is in our future, but if we hold fast to what we know is true, we will stand the test of time: "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body" (NIV).
Christ Jesus Himself is with us through it all. As we pray for wisdom in our own persecutions, let us not forget to pray for our global leaders, too. Our Turkish brothers and sisters in Christ, believers in God Almighty, need courageous prayers. And our prayers can make a difference.


Sudan: Muslims attempt to seize Christian school


Imagine the outcry if the roles were reversed, which they would not be and should not be. But there will be no outcry over this. Multiply incidents of this kind over 1,400 years and you see how the Islamic world was created.

Muslims Attempt to Seize Christian School in Sudan

Morning Star News, 

September 30, 2025:

JUBA, Sudan (Morning Star News) – A years-long Islamist attempt to seize a Christian school in Sudan continued this month even as people displaced by war have taken refuge in the facility, sources said.

An Islamic business interest sent three Muslims who forcefully entered the embattled Evangelical School of Sudan, in Omdurman across the Nile River from Khartoum, on Sept. 3 and threatened hundreds of mostly Christian people displaced by internal war, telling them to leave the compound, said an area church leader whose name was withheld for security reasons.

The intruders made their way to the office of the headmaster of the school, which belong to the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC), and broke the office door, the church leader said. Without giving a deadline, the intruders threatened to take the facility by force, he said.

The institution suffered numerous attacks during the regime of deposed President Omar al Bashir, mainly raids by supporters of the Muslim businessman who has sought to seize the land by force accompanied by police.

On April 3, 2017, a church leader was stabbed while defending Christian women at the facility during an attempt by assailants to take it over; elder Younan Abdullah Kambu of the nearby Bahri Evangelical Church later died in a hospital.

During the same raid, elder Ayoub Kamama was also stabbed in the chest and the hand as he tried to snatch a knife from one of the assailants….



Thursday, January 9, 2025

This Week's Islamic Massacres > Boko Haram lose 18 men in attack on Chad President; Genocide in Sudan, again

 

Attack on Chad's presidential complex

in N'Djamena leaves 19 dead

Africa

At least 19 people were killed when gunmen attacked Chad's presidential complex in the capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, according to the government. Shortly afterward, Infrastructure Minister Aziz Mahamat Saleh said the situation was "under control."

Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno participates in his inauguration ceremony in N'djamena, Chad, May 23, 2024.
Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno participates in his inauguration ceremony in N'djamena, Chad, May 23, 2024. © Mouta Ali, AP

Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead, the government said.

AFP reporters heard gunfire erupt near the site and saw tanks on the street, while security sources reported that armed men had tried to overrun the complex.

The government later said 19 people were killed in the fighting, of which 18 were members of the 24-strong commando unit that launched the assault.

"There were 18 dead and six injured" among the attackers "and we suffered one death and three injured, one of them seriously", government spokesman and Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah told AFP.

Hours after the shooting, Koulamallah appeared in a video posted to Facebook, surrounded by soldiers and with a gun on his belt, saying "the situation is completely under control... the destabilisation attempt was put down".

A security source said the attackers were members of the Boko Haram jihadist group, which Chadian forces are fighting in the western Lake Chad region that borders Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger.

Landlocked Chad is under military rule and faces regular attacks by Boko Haram. 

It recently ended a military accord with former colonial power France and has been accused of interfering in the conflict ravaging neighbouring Sudan.

Several security sources said that an armed commando unit opened fire inside the presidency on Wednesday evening around 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), before being overpowered by the presidential guard.

All roads leading to the presidency were blocked and tanks could be seen on the streets, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

As civilians rushed out of the city centre in cars and motorcycles, armed police were seen at several points in the district.

Hours before the fighting broke out, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno and other senior officials.

France's last Sahel bases 

The former French colony hosted France's last military bases in the region known as the Sahel, but at the end of November, Chad ended defence and security agreements with Paris, calling them "obsolete".

Around a thousand French military personnel were stationed in the country and are in the process of being withdrawn.

France was previously driven out of three Sahelian countries governed by juntas hostile to Paris -- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Senegal and Ivory Coast have also asked France to vacate military bases on their territory.

Like father, like son 

The gunfire erupted less than two weeks after Chad held a contested general election that the government hailed as a key step towards ending military rule, but that was marked by low turnout and opposition allegations of fraud.

A call by the opposition for voters to boycott the polls left the field open for candidates aligned with the president, who was brought to power by the military in 2021 and then legitimised in a May presidential election that opposition candidates denounced as fraudulent.

Deby took power after the death of his father, who had ruled the country with an iron fist for three decades.

The desert country is an oil producer but ranked fourth from bottom in the United Nations Human Development Index.

To consolidate his grip on power, Deby has reshuffled the army, historically dominated by the Zaghawas and Gorane, his mother's ethnic group.

On the diplomatic front, he has sought new strategic partnerships, including with Russia and Hungary. 

(AFP)



U.S. declares Sudan's paramilitary and

proxy forces are committing genocide

Sudanese people sit on a bus as they traverse the Nile River on a ferry after crossing the border from Sudan, in Abu Simbel, southern Egypt, 19 May 2023. Millions have been displaced in Sudan because of the war. File Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA-EFE
Sudanese people sit on a bus as they traverse the Nile River on a ferry after crossing the border from Sudan, in Abu Simbel, southern Egypt, 19 May 2023. Millions have been displaced in Sudan because of the war. File Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA-EFE

Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The United States has accused Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and proxy militias of committing genocide in the Northeast African nation's nearly 2-year-old civil war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the genocide determination Tuesday. The United States has repeatedly declared that war crimes have been committed by both warring parties in Sudan's civil war, but Blinken alleged that the RSF's systematic murder and sexual violence targeting individuals based on their ethnicity now meets the high threshold of genocide.

"The RSF and allied militias have systematically murdered men and boys -- even infants -- on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence. Those same militias have targeted fleeing civilians, murdering innocent people escaping conflict, and prevented remaining civilians from accessing life-saving supplies," Blinken said in a statement.

The breakaway RSF and the Sudan Defense Force have been locked in a deepening and bloody civil war since April 2023, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands, the displacement of millions and the creation of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe.

The genocide determination is largely symbolic, but the U.S. Treasury accompanied Blinken's announcement with sanctions targeting Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa, leader of the RSF, as well as the paramilitary weapons supplier Abu Dharr Abdul Nabi Habiballa Ahmmed and seven related companies.

Allegations of ethnic violence have come predominantly from Sudan's Darfur province, where RSF and its aligned militias have killed thousands.

Blinken mentioned Darfur in his statement, directly implicating Mohammad Hamdan in gross human rights violations committed there, specifically the mass rape of civilians.

"The United States is committed to holding accountable those responsible for these atrocities," Blinken said.

The United States has repeatedly responded with sanctions to the civil war, which broke out following years of uncertainty in the country as it attempted to crawl toward stability after the fall of African nation's former three-decade dictator government of President Omar al-Bashir in a civilian-backed coup in 2019.

The genocide determination is the second made by the United States in Darfur this century. In September of 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell declared a genocide was being committed in Darfur province by the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed militia, which would later evolve into the RSF.

Brian Adeba, senior advisor at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization, said the genocide determination sends "a strong message" to victims that their suffering is recognized and that justice will be pursued.

"Most importantly, the determination signals that the world is waking up to the task of holding those who commit mass atrocities accountable. This determination must be accompanied by bold and concrete action to not only hold perpetrators accountable, but also protect civilians, and support the pursuit of justice and peace in Sudan," Adeba said in a statement.

Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, similarly described Blinken's determination in a statement as an important step to identifying atrocities committed by the RSF.

"Keeping U.S. focus on holding the RSF and SAF accountable and ending this conflict must continue to be a priority as we seek to address the world's worst humanitarian crisis," he said.

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

The Media is the Message > Genocide is really happening, in Sudan, but who cares?

 

Unfortunately, the poor people of Sudan don't have an elaborate global propaganda machine that spits out lies at a phenomenal pace, like Palestinians. They can only reveal bits of the truth, which, no-one in the Western media seems the least bit interested in. Is it because the perpetrators are Muslim, and they don't want the world to see Islam in its true light?


World Pays No Attention to Real Genocide in Sudan,

Focuses on Nonexistent Genocide in Gaza

There is no genocide in Gaza. The IDF has done everything it can to minimize civilian casualties. It has dropped more than 14 million leaflets, sent six million messages, made four million telephone calls, all to warn civilians away from sites, and individual buildings — schools, mosques, apartment buildings — about to be targeted. 

Right now the IDF is trying to persuade Gazans in Rafah to leave, in order to be safe when it moves more deeply into the city. So far 100,000 Gazans have moved out of Rafah to safe sites north of the city, as indicated by the IDF, and another 300,000 are right now moving to those sites. That means 400,000 Gazans will have left Rafah in the first week, with the IDF hoping to persuade an equal number to leave Rafah within another few weeks, before it conducts its assault on Hamas combatants in the center. This is a feat that the Bidenites, of little faith, have thought couldn’t be done. Such elaborate attempts by the IDF to lead 800,000 Gazans out of Rafah to safety is no way to conduct a genocide.

Meanwhile, while nitwits on campus continue to denounce Israel

for its nonexistent “genocide,” we learn about the real “genocide” 

in the Sudan here: “UN envoy says world can’t ignore Sudan’s ‘silent war”

Independent, May 10, 2024:

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that genocide is likely to have been committed in Sudan, as the UN’s special envoy to the country has said that global indifference to the civil war has led to a “silent” conflict and famine.

Tom Perriello told The Independent that the world “simply will not engage” with Sudan despite the fact that it has been in the grip of a year-long, vicious civil war. Last April, simmering tensions between its military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, broke out into street battles in the capital, Khartoum.

Ferocious fighting has spread to other parts of the country, especially urban areas and the Darfur region. There the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that people are living off grass and peanut shells and that at least 1.7 million people are experiencing emergency levels of hunger. HRW has called for sanctions over the situation in West Darfur in a new report released on Thursday [May 10] that alleged that RSF and its allied militias are committing crimes against humanity and widespread war crimes “in the context of an ethnic cleansing campaign”.

The “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” are taking place in the context of “ethnic cleansing.” That “ethnic cleansing” in question is being carried out by Arabs against black Africans. The Arabs have not only shot dead tens of thousands of the latter, but also have been destroying their crops and livestock so that they starve to death.

Mr Perriolo(sic) said that, despite the massive humanitarian crisis, soaring death toll and horrific violence, there had only been a “brief blip” in global attention around the anniversary of the conflict last month. Otherwise, interest had died down, with devastating effect.

“Please bring more attention to Sudan so that we do not lose the momentum of the last few weeks, which is the first we’ve had in a long time,” he said….

Who cares what happens to the black Africans being slaughtered in Sudan? No Jews can be blamed, so why get upset? Those nitwits on campus have no interest in the blacks being murdered in the Sudan. Even to pay attention to them would diminish attention to the nonexistent “genocide in Gaza” and that, of course, would never do.

Meanwhile, on the nightly news channels all across America, we are daily treated to stories about “famine conditions” that are “just about” to set in in Gaza, though an actual famine never arrives. Meanwhile, hundreds of aid trucks, carrying tons of food and medicine, enter Gaza every day. There is no famine in Gaza, but only a maldistribution of food, because much of that food aid is stolen by senior officials of Hamas, both for themselves and their extended families, and also to be resold at exorbitant prices to ordinary Gazans.

Just like the news agencies, the UN has not devoted a single session to the ongoing “genocide” in Sudan. Not a single protester on an American campus has held up a single sign to deplore what is happening to black Africans at the hands of Arab murderers in Sudan. This real genocide in Sudan gets none of the attention it needs; our collective bandwidth is taken up with the false charges of “genocide” by the IDF in Gaza.

The WPF warned last week that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death across Darfur, where at least 1.7 million people are experiencing emergency levels of hunger.”

Leni Kinzli, the WFP’s regional spokesperson, said that the situation in El Fasher, in particular, is “extremely dire.”

She received photos of severely malnourished children in a camp for displaced people in Central Darfur, as well as older people “who have nothing left but skin and bones.”

“People are resorting to consuming grass and peanut shells,” she added. “Recent reports from our partners indicate that 20 children have died in recent weeks of malnutrition in that … camp.”

Is there anything like that happening in Gaza? No one in Gaza is consuming “grass and peanut shells.” And even if one were to accept the claim, now being made by so many, that several hundred thousand Gazans “will soon face” (i.e., in the near future, but not at present) famine if more food aid is not forthcoming – and it now is, with hundreds of trucks a day again entering the Strip through the reopened Kerem Shalom crossing (it had been temporarily closed after Hamas killed three IDF soldiers who were policing the crossing) and within a few days, food aid will also be offloaded onto trucks from the American-built pier. Meanwhile, unlike the situation in Gaza, tons of food aid are not entering Sudan, where 1.7 million people are already “experiencing emergency levels of hunger.”

Don’t bother us with Arabs killing and starving black Africans in Sudan. Don’t tell us about the ongoing famines in Burkina Faso and Mali and the severe malnutrition in a dozen other countries where Jews are not involved. We are fixed — fixated — on what the Jews are doing in Gaza. it’s genocide.