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More Evangelical Church Members Harassed in Sudan

12/6/2014

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Police in Sudan Attack Worshipping Congregation, Arrest 38 Christians

Church members released after paying fine.

December 3, 2014
By Our Sudan Correspondent
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Arrested Christians of Bahri Evangelical Church in jail in North Khartoum.

NAIROBI, Kenya
Morning Star News


Police in North Khartoum, Sudan yesterday beat, arrested and fined 38 Christians worshipping at Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, sources said.


After nearly two weeks of raiding and demolishing church property, officers armed with guns and batons arrived at the church compound at 6:30 a.m. on two trucks accompanied by seven smaller vehicles and broke through the main gate, beating whoever they found in church complex, sources said. Security personnel surrounded the complex, preventing people from entering or leaving, they said.

Police then started to beat worshippers and arrested 38 for refusing to surrender the property, eyewitnesses said.

“We have enjoyed worshipping and praising God in prison,” one of the arrested Christians told Morning Star News by phone, before it was confiscated. “The power of God was present among us; let the name of God be praised and glorified from now and evermore.”

Police severely beat church elder Daud Bashir and tore his clothes. Officers also beat a female member who was rushed to hospital for treatment, sources said.

Leaders of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC)-affiliated congregation added that police demolished a fence constructed by church youth as sign of their refusal to surrender worship property.

Police took the Christians to Khartoum North Police Station before they were transferred to Khartoum North Court. The charges against them included Article 77 of the notorious Public Order Law of 1991, which gives police broad powers to arrest Christians and other lowly regarded people without cause, for creating a public disturbance.

The Christians were released last night after being sentenced to pay a fine of $250 each, sources said.

“Personally, I am not upset because this is my first time to be sentenced in court for Jesus,” another Christian told Morning Star News.

Five church leaders arrested on Nov. 25 were released that same night and were not on the premises yesterday morning.

Christians in Sudan are asking their counterparts worldwide to pray for the church in Sudan.

With Muslim investors laying claim to the land based on an agreement signed by a government-installed church committee that church leaders say did not legally represent the church, a bulldozer accompanied by security personnel and police knocked down a wall of the church and houses on Nov. 17-18. Christians formed a human barrier to face down further demolition attempts on Nov. 19-20.

One of the homes destroyed in the compound belonged to Nile Theological College; a Christian doctor had rented it, and he lost all his belongings, sources said.

The bulldozer, accompanied by National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) personnel and police, carried out the demolitions based on a court order demanding that church leaders surrender the premises to Muslim investors. The church committee of members that the Sudanese government interposed made a secret agreement with the investors to sell the church property as part of Sudan’s campaign to do away with Christianity in the country, church leaders said.

Church members regard the committee that arranged the transfer of the property to business interests as a “government puppet committee” supporting the government agenda to do away with Christianity.

Last month authorities destroyed the home of pastor Hafiz Fasaha at the SPEC church compound after ordering personnel inside to leave the premises, church leaders said. Authorities told the Christians a Muslim businessman owned the land and that they had a court order calling for the use of force to take over the property. 

While the church blames the government for the court order that it surrender the property, a representative of the Muslim businessmen laying claim to it has said a contract was signed about four years ago giving them the right to invest in the land for a period of up to 20 years. The representative asserts that because of church opposition he had to go to the government to take the land by force. 

Church leaders hold ownership papers to the property and believe any contract surrendering it comes from a government ruse.

Harassment, arrests and persecution of Christians have intensified since the secession of South Sudan in 2011, when Bashir vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) and recognize only Islamic culture and the Arabic language.

The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Endowments announced in April 2013 that no new licenses would be granted for building new churches in Sudan, citing a decrease in the South Sudanese population.

On Oct. 5, 2013, Sudan’s police and security forces broke through the church fence, beat and arrested Christians in the compound and asserted parts of the property belonged to a Muslim investor accompanying them. As Muslims nearby shouted, “Allahu Akbar [God is greater],” plainclothes police and personnel from NISS broke onto the property aboard a truck and two Land Cruisers. After beating several Christians who were in the compound, they arrested some of them; they were all released later that day.

Following the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, Sudan since 2012 has expelled foreign Christians and bulldozed church buildings on the pretext that they belonged to South Sudanese. Besides raiding Christian bookstores and arresting Christians, authorities threatened to kill South Sudanese Christians who do not leave or cooperate with them in their effort to find other Christians (see Morning Star News).

Due to its treatment of Christians and other human rights violations, Sudan has been designated a Country of Particular Concern by the U.S. State Department since 1999, and in April 2013, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended the country remain on the list.

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