Pastors Face Execution For Spreading Gospel

In this season of celebration, some families around the world are in deep sorrow as their fathers, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, friends and family members await the day they will kiss the world goodbye because they preach the word of God.

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According to Tom Rhodes of the Daily Beast, Four men, including two pastors, face the death penalty in Sudan a full year after they were arrested for preaching the Gospel. One of the detained pastors who spoke to Nuba Reports by phone from prison, Rev. Kuwa Shamal says: "For more than 365 days, two Sudanese pastors, a Czech aid worker, and a Sudanese civil rights activist have seen their loved ones only at court sessions and only in passing".

“We are considered to be spies,” said Shamal, who shares a cell at Al Huda Prison in Omdurman with fellow pastor Hassan Abdelrahim. Both are from Sudan’s Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan State, where civil war has raged for the last five years.

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The four suspects face seven separate charges including espionage, waging war against the state, and provoking hatred among sects. This case is just the latest example of growing persecution of Christians in the Islamic country since the 2011 secession of South Sudan.