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The Persecuted Church in the Sudan
By Michael Kuju Paul
(Page 3 of 3)
In fact for them to die in the South while
fighting gives them the direct way to heaven, it is said the
fundamentalists are given keys as they prepare to go to face the Sudan
People's Liberation Army (S.P.L.A) who are fighting for a secular state
in Sudan or what is now largely refereed to as secession of the South
from the North. As already said before, Sudan is the largest country in
Africa and her people come from a wide variety of ethnic, linguistic,
cultural and religious background. These diversities, together with
powerful historical factors which includes decades of non-development of
the South during the years of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominion, have
resulted in a civil war that has been waged continuously since
independence in 1956 apart form a ten year break following the Addis
Ababa agreement of 1972.
A lot of peace talks have taken place in
Abuja, Nigeria in 1992 under the auspices of the Organization of Africa
Unity (O.A.U). Currently there are peace talks going on in Machakos, a
small town in Kenya. These present talks are being supervised by the
Inter Governmental Agency for Development (IGARD) but again no serious
progress is being made so far toward the resolution of the conflict,
mainly because the Government of Sudan was ordering fresh military
initiatives in the Darfur Region of Western Sudan while talking about
peace. We are fully aware that the crisis in Sudan threatens regional
stability within Africa as refugees continue to pour across her borders
into neighboring countries and as the influence of Islamic
Fundamentalism spreads southward. The Muslim agenda is to spread their
beliefs throughout the entire globe, and therefore the Christian Church
in southern Sudan and in the world need to work toward the stopping of
this fanatical imagination by vigorously being instrumental in bringing
peace and religious freed in the horn of Africa.
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