KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese authorities have released 1 of 2 pastors detained in December 2015, sources said.
Kwa Shamaal, head of missions for the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC), was arrested Dec. 18, 2015, and released Dec. 21 but had been required to report daily to the office of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), where he was held from 8 a.m. until midnight, sources said. That requirement was removed Jan. 16.
His colleague, Hassan Abdelrahim Tawor, SCOC vice moderator, remains in detention without charges.
NISS officials were said to have been upset with the pastors for telling others that Christians faced persecution in Sudan. Authorities arrested the two pastors from their respective homes at the same hour. No charges have been brought against them, although NISS officials were said to have objected to their Christian activities.
Christians in Sudan and elsewhere have been praying fervently for the two pastors and for other Christians jailed in Sudan.
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