In Chains: Christian Persecution - 2019, Issue 1

After few minutes they returned, carrying a
Muslim prayer mat.
“This is your last day with us,” one of them
said.
They put a container of water in front of her
to wash herself and say the Muslim
confession, but she again refused. She was
given a niqab, the Muslim head covering for
women that leaves only the eyes exposed,
along with many papers for her to sign, as
one of the men continued taking photos and
videos, she said.
After several attempts to force her to sign
the papers saying she had returned to Islam,
they hurt her hands as they forced her
against her will to sign one of the papers, she
said. Then she felt a blow to the back of her
head and lost consciousness.
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IS
DISCRIMINATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS
Bishops in Sudan are accusing the Ministry
of Education of not appointing teachers for
Christian education and for not including
Christians holidays in the ofYicial school
calendars.
This comes during a Religious Freedoms
Workshop that highlighted the problems
Christians face in regards to church
demolitions, land seizures and registering
children.
When she came to, she found herself on a
street with people and cars passing by, she
said.
Prior to her abduction, Mostafa had received
a phone call from one of her sisters telling
her that her uncle and brother were
planning to hurt her, she said. Her uncle, a
prominent ofYicer in Sudan’s notorious
National Intelligence and Security Services
(NISS), also has large inYluence as the
military attaché in Sudan’s Foreign Ministry
in Khartoum and can easily move between
Sudan and Saudi Arabia, where his brother
lives, she said.
Mostafa said she is trusting that God has His
purposes for her abduction, and that her
purpose in revealing it was that the
international community would know what
kinds of pressures Sudanese converts face in
Egypt.
“Our God is able, and I am now alive,” she
said.