JUBA, South Sudan, March 27, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Christian leaders in Sudan rejoiced when the new transitional government on Wednesday (March 25) released a truck confiscated eight years ago from a Baptist church.
The Rev. Philemon Hassan Kharata, a well-known gospel music composer and singer and senior pastor of the church, confirmed the release of the truck on his Facebook page, with many Sudanese Christians taking to social media to express their joy.
“Finally, the truck is released,” Kharata wrote in Arabic. “This vehicle which belonged to the Baptist Church has been seized in Kosti since 2012, when it was traveling to El-Obeid town carrying some youths and Christian literature to celebrate Christmas.”
Christians were taking the truck from Khartoum to El-Obeid in western Sudan for a Christmas celebration with other churches when the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) stopped it in Kosti, 313 kilometers (194 miles) south of the Sudanese capital, he said.
NISS, long notorious for abuse of broad powers granted to it by the former regime of Omar al-Bashir, arrested young Christian men on the truck for carrying Christian literature and other outreach materials. The Christians were later released.
Sudanese Christians took to Facebook to express their gladness, most of them expressing faith in God for answering their prayers.
“We thank God because time has come…
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