{"id":25119,"date":"2017-10-17T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=25119"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:06:06","slug":"south-sudan-christian-refugee-children-must-recite-islamic-prayers-receiving-food-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/10\/17\/south-sudan-christian-refugee-children-must-recite-islamic-prayers-receiving-food-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH SUDAN\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Christian refugee children must recite Islamic prayers before receiving food -ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SOUTH SUDAN<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Christian refugee children must recite Islamic prayers before receiving food<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christian children in Sudan\u2019s refugee camps are not receiving food unless they say Islamic prayers, according to reports received by sources close to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A contact, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons, described how Christian refugees from South Sudan are \u201cin a terrible situation\u201d in refugee camps in Sudan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking of the plight of child refugees in Sudan, the ACN source said: \u201cWe have heard stories where children are conditioned to say Islamic prayers before [being] given food. This is not right. These children are Christian. They should be respected for that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The source, who estimates that 700,000 South Sudanese Christians are refugees in Sudan, added: \u201cThe majority are left in camps, some in a very terrible situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThey are confined to those places. They are not allowed to go further north to the cities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACN also received reports that it is hard for refugee families to survive on food provided by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A monthly food parcel for a family lasts little more than two weeks \u2013 leading parents to seek provisions in the local market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACN was told items provided by the UN are sold in the market \u2013 many still in wrappers marked with UNICEF or UNHCR logos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACN\u2019s source went on to say that the Khartoum government has hampered charities seeking to provide urgent assistance to the camps, preventing them from overseeing emergency help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said: \u201cWe have heard the story that the government does not allow any other agencies to give support including the Church agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe government knows very well that the Church is the body in the world that supports enormously the needy around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe Muslim community have a charity, so the Christians have a charity, so that possibility should be given so that the people are supported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said he identifies with the suffering families especially as he himself was a refugee as a boy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Referring to visits to displaced families in South Sudan, the source said: \u201cI tell them I was once a refugee like you \u2013 that was not the end of the road\u2026 yet still I can now contribute something positive to society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Describing people being forced to leave their country, he compared refugees to the young Jesus Christ who fled with his parents to Egypt as a child, adding: \u201cWe call on humanity to have the heart [for] refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cRefugees should be given genuine respect, dignity and their rights should be respected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNever mistreat a refugee because you never know what tomorrow holds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The source\u2019s comments come amid reports of increasing persecution against Christians in Sudan with the regime reportedly intensifying its Islamising agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In May 2017 a source who also requested anonymity for security reasons told ACN: \u201cChurches [in Sudan] are destroyed but it\u2019s claimed to be just town planning. The Church is not allowed to buy property.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At about the same time, a Sudan Church source told ACN: \u201cChurches are being torn down each month \u2013 you never hear that about mosques.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reports also note that Church leaders are increasingly concerned about Sudan\u2019s intolerance aimed at Christian women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In June 2015, 12 Christian women were arrested as they left a church for wearing trousers or skirts which were seen as \u201cindecent or immoral dress\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH SUDAN Christian refugee children must recite Islamic prayers before receiving food &nbsp; Christian children in Sudan\u2019s refugee camps are not receiving food unless they say Islamic prayers, according to reports received by sources close to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. 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