Jihad and Slavery In Sudan—Africa’s Forgotten War

The longest war of this century is still in progress and is intensifying—in the largest country in Africa, Sudan. Since 1955 the Muslim Arab North has been attacking the Christian Black South. The death toll so far is about two million.

In his U.S. tour, firsthand Peter Hammond lifts the virtual news blackout on this colossal conflict. Over the last year Peter has documented the scorched-earth tactics, the systematic terror-bombing of civilian targets, and the resurgence of the slave trade in Sudan. He has just completed a book. Faith Under Fire in Sudan which exposes the atrocities of the militant Islamicist government of Sudan and presents many inspiring testimonies of Christian courage.

The human-rights violations have been most severe in the Nuba Mountains. Most of the villages and churches have been destroyed, hundreds of Christians crucified, and over one million people have been forced into concentration camps. Christian soldiers, who are literally fighting for their lives, point out that the Christians in Sudan have stood firm as a bulwark against the expansion of militant Islam into Central Africa for fourteen centuries.

Peter presents the inspiring story of the oldest community of Christians in Africa. Despite suffering some of the worst persecution in the world today, many churches in Sudan are experiencing real revival and spectacular growth.

Frontline Fellowship missionaries have succeeded in repeatedly breaching the UN blockade and have delivered over 3,000 Bibles to the suffering Christians in Southern Sudan. They have also had over 500 Arabic Bibles smuggled behind enemy lines into the Nuba Mountains of Central Sudan. Frontline Fellowship is assisting the persecuted churches with literature and leadership training programs and serving as Christian chaplains to the military forces resisting the Islamic invasion. Frontline is also establishing the first hospital for war-wounded inside the liberated zone of Equatoria. At present the wounded need to be transported to neighboring Kenya. Many limbs and lives have been lost unnecessarily due to the distances and delays involved in transporting the wounded across such vast distances.

Peter Hammond will also be able to report on the genocide in Rwanda (including the shocking role of gun control, the UN, the WCC and the media); the ongoing need to smuggle Bibles and medicines past the shoot-on-sight patrols, minefields, swamps and crocodile-infested rivers into Southern Angola; and the ongoing conflict in Kwazulu and the Christian Reformation in Zambia.