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| Sudanese Moslems Debate with Sudanese Christians About Religion |
| 2007-10-06 |
| A suicide bomber in military fatigues killed five young people at a church meeting last week in Sudan’s Upper Nile State, according to eyewitnesses. The man detonated a grenade on his belt after approaching a group of 34 young people holding an outdoor church meeting in Khorfulus ... last Thursday evening (September 27). .... The Rev. Joseph Maker Gordon, acting secretary general of the Presbyterian Church in Sudan, told Compass [Direct] he was on a week-long visit to Khorfulus at the time of the bombing. “We were praying in another church [nearby] when we heard the explosion at 10 p.m.,” Rev. Gordon said. The pastor immediately went to the scene of the attack to find that four young people and the bomber had been killed. Eyewitnesses told Rev. Gordon that the man had approached a group of Christian youth who were singing worship songs outside of a Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) church building. The property, in use by other church groups, had no fence around it, allowing the man to walk directly up to the group of children and teenagers, Rev. Gordon said. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |