JUBA, South Sudan — Security personnel in Sudan have held a pastor from South Sudan since Dec. 21, 2014, after he delivered a sermon at an embattled North Khartoum church.
Agents from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services arrested Yat Michael of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church after Sunday worship concluded at Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church on Dec. 21. At press time he remained in jail without charges.
Police in North Khartoum on Dec. 2, 2014, beat, arrested and fined 38 Christians from the church after nearly two weeks of raiding and demolishing church property. They were released later that night.
Michael had been invited to encourage the congregation to stand firm amid persecution. Besides arrests, the North Khartoum church compound has been subject to demolition of buildings and part of its worship center as Muslim investors seek to take it over.
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