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On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

…people are no strangers to exploitation. He told me that much of Northern Sudan was built by the Southern Sudanese. To illustrate the system of forced labor practiced in the North, William taught me an Arabic phrase, jowa kalbak yetbak, “if your dog is hungry, he will follow you.” He explained that Southern Sudanese laborers in the North were given just enough food to keep them working. The government even taxed the donkeys that transported their…

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Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

…m in the run-up to the July 9 date for the formal independence of southern Sudan. Like the residents of Kadugli, in the northern border state of South Kordofan, many Sudanese are finding themselves on the wrong side of disputed borders. There are, for example, many armed people aligned with the south’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) who live in and near Kadugli. This has allowed Khartoum to claim that they are fighting “rebels.” And while t…

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American Prosperity Gospel Makes South Sudan “Ripe for Exploitation”

…situation in South Sudan become similar to Brazil, where cultural religious traditions such as Candomble are demonized, and Pentecostalism is lauded as the progressive religion not connected to a difficult history? I predict all of the above. The fears of the Sudan Ecumenical Forum that South Sudan is “ripe for exploitation by unscrupulous preachers” are well founded. The die has been cast, and the relationship that was started in order to stop g…

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Amid Horrors, Muslim ‘John Hancocks’ Forge Secular Sudan

…y. He said that the document was the creation of scholars and activists in Sudan and the Sudanese diaspora. It was created largely over email, before being put into final form by a core group. The John Hancocks on the document are leaders of factions of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement, North (SPLM-N). Asked why more of the authors’ names aren’t on the Declaration, Ismail explained that the larger gr…

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The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

…dmonished by the scriptures—I am a Catholic—and I believe passionately in our Lord’s statement, what you do to the least of these, you do likewise to me. And that could be any disenfranchised person.” He went on to say that his concern applied to anyone, Christians, Animists, and Muslims in Sudan. The Government of Sudan responded to the hearing and other events of the week, declaring: “The military operations carried out by the Sudanese authoriti…

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U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan

…the Nuban people, whom human rights groups, anti-genocide scholars, journalists, and Sudanese exiles say are the victims of a current and ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign by the Sudanese government that began on June 5. One of the satellite images said to show a pile of white objects “consistent with” reports of body bags near the Episcopal Church complex in Kadugli (used by RD to illustrate our July 14 story on the dramatic report on mass killi…

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Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

…ing out to church and human rights groups and Western news media since the Sudan Armed Forces initiated attacks in South Kordofan in early June. Since then, tens of thousands have fled. According to refugee accounts that surfaced in the international media, SAF helicopter gunships have hunted them in the mountains, and bombers have unleashed terror on towns. And although news media are barred from the area, and the UN has fled, the ethnic cleansin…

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…ven today, there’s no difference between Mike Lindell and a dozen televangelists, save a thousand milligrams of lithium. If you have any doubts about the commodification of the healing grace of God, google it for yourself. There’s a part of American Christianity that believes deeply and sincerely that if they can make it out of the lion’s den, they can teach you to do the same—for a modest fee, of course. That kind of hucksterism is probably exact…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book.  Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

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