Bringing Good News

18 months ago I was in the Nuba Mountains witnessing great celebrations of the first graduation ceremony from Bishop Korkiel Bible College which your support was helping to build. Since that time the Khartoum government has sent troops and planes to destroy the Nuba people. The Bible College was bombed and destroyed along with churches and villages. The civilian population has been targeted and thousands have been killed...

 

 

I have recently heard from my friend in Khartoum that two of the pastors in this picture have reached Khartoum with over 130 families and managed to escape the terrible slaughter that happened in June 11 when the northern troops came into the Nuba Mountains to kill the blacks and destroy the church. Bishop Andudu on the right was out of the country at the time receiving medical treatment. When I asked him about some of the people I knew he said Rev Martin managed to escape to Juba and that the security forces had put red crosses by their names as being the most wanted men. He told me that his sister and mother walked for two weeks through the bush but they are safe. Bishop Andudu has raised funds to send medicine to the...

Bishop Andudu was out of the country for medical treatment when the northern troops started their attack on the Nuba people on the 6th June. He believes he would have joined many others in a mass grave if he had been there. He writes, “Once again we are facing the nightmare of genocide of our people in a final attempt to erase our culture and society from the face of the earth. The Times newspaper wrote, “The shelling came first. Then soldiers swept through the town followed by attacks from Antonov bombers and MiG fighter jets. Once the northern troops of the Sudan Armed Forces had taken control of parts of Kadugli, the slaughter began. Security forces went from house to house dragging out...... anyone who was black. They were executed, sometimes with a bullet in...