#Sudan

For leaving Islam to accept Christ, a young mother in Sudan was chained in her home, subjected to electrical shocks at a psychiatric hospital and has lost her children, a local source said.

Ahmad Adam Mohamad, 49, of North Darfur state in Sudan went into a hiding after his Muslim uncles accused him of apostasy earlier this month. He disciples about 25 Christians of Muslim upbringing, which has angered his relatives, he said.

In 2013-2014, World Vision paid ISRA for services rendered as a part of its Blue Nile Recovery Program in Sudan. However, ISRA is on the U.S. government's sanction list.

A new report released by the USCIRF, which makes policy recommendations to the President, State Department, and Congress, emphasizes that several complicated issues are overlapping in the large swath of land stretching from Senegal to Sudan, and they are not necessarily religiously motivated.

Apostasy (abandoning Islam through speech or behavior, including conversion to Christianity) and morality laws have been eliminated, and female genital mutilation is now banned in Sudan.

Following calls from mosque leaders in east Khartoum, Sudan to rid their “Muslim area” of South Sudanese Christians, several Christians were attacked there and in neighboring Omdurman this month, sources said.

“I saw them and heard them saying, ‘We will kill you because you left Islam and became infidel,’” he said of their attempt to burn down his home in the area between Sudan and South Sudan the afternoon of April 1, 2019.