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                    Rowland V. Bingham, founder of the Sudan Interior Mission, was once seriously injured in an automobile accident. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. 
The following day, when he regained consciousness, he asked the nurse what he was doing there. "Don’t try to talk now, just rest," she
                    
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                    Contributed by Amiri Hooker on Mar 22, 2011
                
                
                
                    KILLING EACH OTHER OVER RACE
Two million people have been killed during the civil war in the Sudan Region of Africa mostly over race, mostly over skin tone. The name Sudan comes from "bilad al sudan": Arabic for "the land of the blacks." So you might expect Sudanese to be comfortable with the
                    
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                    All across the world there are people who clearly understand the message of Christianity but who have chosen to reject Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the Living God.  Just like in the days when Jesus was on earth, some people will do anything to silence His message.  In our country, we have to
                    
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                    Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “For over fifteen years I have been asking people of all walks of life from Morocco to India and from Turkey to the Sudan about the implications of a son’s request for his inheritance while the father is still living. The answer has almost always been emphatically the same.”
…the conversation runs
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Luthy on Apr 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jesus said, “By their fruit you will recognize them.” (Matt. 7:20, NIV).  I had the privilege this week of praying with the man who pastors the Arabic Christian Church.  He explained to me that in his church he has families from Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, the Sudan and other Arabic
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Persecution of Christians Continues in Many Nations
About 45 million, or two-thirds of all Christian martyrs in the history of the church, actually died in the twentieth century, according to a new book, The New Persecuted: Inquiries into Anti-Christian Intolerance in the New Century of Martyrs by
                    
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                    Contributed by John Harvey on Nov 2, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    **Sudanese Boys- {page 17}
    The four young Sudanese boys cried and screamed out for their mothers but they refused to repeat the words that would mean saving their lives yet renouncing their Christianity.  Their red blood began to flow across their black skin, but they would not give up their
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
                
                
                
                    In 1990, there were only three known Christians in Kazakhstan and no Christians in Uzbekistan, but now more than 15,000 in Kazakhstan and 30, 000 in Uzbekistan. There were only 500 Christians in Iran in 1979, but more than one million Iranians believing Jesus Christ today, most of whom meet in
                    
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                    Contributed by Rich Young on Feb 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    (Mona Claren, The Washington Times, 1997)  “LAI MAN PENG WAS A 22 YEAR OLD CHINESE CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST.  IN 1994, AT A MEETING OF ONE OF CHINA’S HOUSE CHURCHES (A NON-GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED PRAYER MEETING), HE AND FOUR OTHER EVANGELISTS WERE SEIZED BY AGENTS OF THE PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU, CHINA’S
                    
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                    EVEN LOST BOYS OVERCOME
Between 1983 and 2003, so many Christians were killed in the Sudanese Civil War that a whole community of orphaned children arose who have become known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. Lopez Lomong was one of those boys. At six years old, he was kidnapped from his parents at
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 14, 2025
                
                
                
                    [163].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JOY FOR SORROW - CARE IN HURT
The title of this poem has two contrasts – sorrow turning to joy, and hurt adopting care.
This poem was written 27 years ago and since that time much has changed in the world for the followers of the Lord.  Persecution has increased
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 26, 2025
                
                
                
                    [143].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN THE FURNACE AND THE LIONS’ DEN
This poem is the telling of two stories in Daniel, one of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the blazing furnace, and the other of Daniel in the lion’s den.
Both stories testify to the goodness of God, and both are examples of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    To live before the Audience of One truly makes a demonstrable difference.  The character and life of the great nineteenth-century Christian soldier General Charles Gordon, sometimes known as "Chinese Gordon" or "Gordon of Khartoum" is a striking example.  In his book on the recapture of Sudan,
                    
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