All articles in category Sudan
By John Brand
Article
March 2013
Sudan
Sudanese repatriation
Sudanese repatriation On the morning of Tuesday 18 December, a convoy of 33 buses and 35 trucks left Khartoum, taking some 1500 people and all their worldly possessions ‘home’ to South Sudan. For some of them, depending on which part they were going to, this was to be a four-day journey. I say ‘home’,…
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By Julie Ward
Article
January 2012
Sudan
Life at home in South Sudan
World Mission Life at home in South Sudan I realise how far I have journeyed to be able to join together the words ‘at home’ and ‘in Sudan’. I remember when we arrived five years ago. I was in our aracuba, the temporary grass shelter we lived in as we constructed a hut to…
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By Emma Stewart
Article
December 2006
Sudan
Wings over Darfur
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur has affected millions of people. Many have died through the war and its consequences. Disease and starvation are rife. Since 2003, two million people have fled the region. Many seek refuge in displaced people’s camps in neighbouring Chad; others make their homes elsewhere in Sudan. Christian relief organisation Safe…
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By John Brand
Article
November 2001
Sudan
Missionary Spotlight – Sudan
recognised him as soon as I answered the knock on the guest-house door. He had been one of the evangelists at the previous week’s conference. His two top front teeth were missing and the first tooth on either side of the gap was bright gold. But it wasn’t his dental work that had…
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By Doug and Gill Reitsma
Article
November 1999
Sudan
Missionary Spotlight – Suffering in the Sudan
The Sudanese [Ethiopia] will raise their hands in prayer to God’ (Psalm 68:31). This is the ‘battle cry’ that many Sudanese Christians have adopted. This young church has seen much suffering since independence came to Sudan in 1956, along with civil war as the Arab north began to dominate the African south. The few…
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June 1999
Sudan
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-REPUBLIC OF SUDAN
Size – The largest country in Africa, with an area of nearly one million square miles and a maximum north-south length of 1,400 miles. Bordering countries – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Libya and Egypt. Geography – Tropical in the south, with swamps and rain forest; arid desert in the…
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June 1999
Sudan
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-REPUBLIC OF SUDAN
The joy of loving enemies How about meeting people whom you then discover were involved in ransacking your own home village and killing your relatives? Christians of differing backgrounds have experienced that kind of thing for the past two thousand years, but here is an up-to-date account concerning two Sudanese Christians, ‘S’ and ‘K’,…
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June 1999
Sudan
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-REPUBLIC OF SUDAN
The church in Sudan The church in the Sudan has not only survived persecution but continues to grow. Unofficial reports indicate that the number of those associated with Reformed churches (Evangelical and Presbyterian) is close to 1.8 million. Through the conversion of the Nuer people in south Sudan, the door has been opened wider…
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June 1999
Sudan
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-REPUBLIC OF SUDAN
Northern Sudanese also belong to Christ! ‘N’ and ‘A’ grew up in a well-to-do Muslim family in the Khartoum area. They are the only son and daughter of their parents. ‘N’ is twenty-four years old. Her brother ‘A’ is twenty-one. They have always been close. One day, about six years ago, ‘N’ heard a…
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June 1999
Sudan
Missionary Spotlight Republic of Sudan
Sudan, Islam, and the gospel Sudan is an Arabic word meaning ‘the place of black people’. To the Ancient Egyptians it was ‘Cush’ and to the Romans ‘Nubia’. Sudan has a richly diverse terrain, climate and ethnic community. Endowed with copious natural resources, it has been called the ‘bread basket of Africa’. It is…
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June 1999
Sudan
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-REPUBLIC OF SUDAN
Islamic agenda Dr Hassan Turabi is the most powerful figure in the leadership of the northern Sudanese government. He master-minded the Islamic-dominated military coup d’etat which brought the present regime to power. His brother-in-law, El-Mahdy, served as Prime Minister of Sudan prior to the coup. El-Mahdy escaped house arrest and became a leader of…
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