2017
Younan died standing up for the right of our brothers and
sisters in Sudan to worship freely.
He intervened after police confronted fellow Christians who were
protesting peacefully against the illegal sell-off of the Evangelical School of
Sudan in Omdurman. Younan was fatally stabbed.
Please ask God to comfort Younan’s widow and their two young children,
and their congregation.
A three-day protest at the school ended on Monday when police arrested
all the male protesters. Soon afterwards, an armed group of about 20 people
turned up and began to beat the women.
Several men from the nearby Bahri Evangelical Church, including Younan
Abdullah, rushed to the school to defend the women. Two of them were stabbed:
Younan died of his injuries, while Ayoub Kumama needed hospital treatment.
Police reportedly stood by and watched.
Among their attackers were members of an illegal committee the Government
has imposed on the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church that runs the Omdurman
school. Committee members have been selling off church properties to businessmen
for ‘redevelopment’. The man whom police arrested on suspicion of stabbing
Younan is believed to be a committee member.
- Pray that Younan’s family and church will know God’s love, strength and peace.
- Pray that those responsible for Younan’s death will be brought to justice.
- Pray for wisdom for Sudanese Christians, and church leaders in particular, in the face of intense persecution. Source: Middle East Concern. Release Int.
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