Insecurity in Sudan

Message

CMS-Africa representative Pauline Walker, currently visiting South Sudan, writes:
"1. Give thanks that many things in South Sudan are growing and developing, and positive opportunities are being brought to people who have never seen them before in their lives.
"2. Alongside the “wheat” grow the “tares”, some of which are choking the new growth. Pray particularly for the capital Juba, where violence and thieving is on the increase as people who are still traumatised and without hope after the war are desperate to take what they see as their share of the world that has suddenly opened up through the eyes and ears of increased communication and increased visitors and agencies to Juba. Last Saturday, the Country Director of AMREF [African Medical and Research Foundation], a wonderful, caring doctor from Ethiopia, was shot dead at his gate in the early evening by thieves who stole his car and possessions. Pray for his family and for all staff of AMREF. Also pray that the number of guns freely available in Juba and elsewhere in South Sudan will be greatly diminished.
"3. Pray for the Christians in northern Sudan, being pressurised by an increasingly hostile extreme Sharia law. The Church leaders have been forbidden to evangelise and even to carry out Christian activities. There are reports of southern men and boys being rounded up on the streets and disappearing. Other reports are coming in of pastors being executed in the Nuba mountains. Pray for God’s intervention for the people of Sudan and South Sudan!"

Author

Jeremy Woodham