Security personnel in Sudan have held a pastor from South Sudan since 21 December, after he delivered a sermon at an embattled North Khartoum church.
Agents from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested the Revd Yat Michael of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church after Sunday worship concluded.
Police in North Khartoum on 2 December beat, arrested and fined 38 Christians from the same church after nearly two weeks of raiding and demolishing church property. They were released later that night. Pastor Michael had been invited to encourage the congregation to stand firm amid persecution. Besides arrests, the North Khartoum church compound has been subjected to demolition of buildings and of part of its worship centre as Muslim investors seek to take it over.
