KHARTOUM, Sudan — The second pastor of South Sudanese descent in less than three weeks has been arrested without charges in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, sources said.
Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested David Yein Reith of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church on Jan. 9 as he returned to his home at the Gerif West Bible School in Khartoum from a prayer meeting, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Reith received a phone call earlier that day from someone threatening to “arrest” his wife and 1-year-old son if he failed to go to his home immediately.
Though of South Sudanese descent, Reith has always lived in Khartoum. On Dec. 28, 2014, NISS officials arrested a visiting South Sudanese pastor from Juba, Yat Michael, after Sunday worship at Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church on Dec. 21. At press time he was still in custody.
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