A Call to Christians Everywhere

As churches burn across Sudan, believers cling to the only liberty no tyrant can steal: FAITH

“If one member suffers, all suffer together.”— 1 Corinthians 12:26

True love is never safe. It is sacrificial.

It bleeds, forgives, and endures for the sake of another. The persecuted Christians of Sudan are living proof of this — men, women, and children who cling to Christ even when the cost is everything.

As St. Maximilian Kolbe once said:

“Love lives by sacrifice, and the more a soul loves, the more it will sacrifice.”

The world calls it tragedy, but Christianity calls it love perfected; the kind of love that turns suffering into an offering, and persecution into prayer.

Self-giving love.

“You cannot love the truth and not suffer for it.” St. Catherine of Siena

The Crisis

Across Sudan, Christian families are enduring a storm of horrific persecution and grief.

Churches bombed. Pastors tortured. Families fleeing through burned villages with nothing but the cross around their necks.

The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has become a shadow war against the Church itself; a campaign of destruction driven by militant ideology and decades of totalitarian Sharia rule.

In June 2025, three churches in North Darfur were bombed, killing the faithful at prayer.

Over a hundred Christian sites have been seized and desecrated.

Christians are arrested, beaten, and forced into hiding.

Some now meet in secret, worshipping  beneath the sound of shellfire.

This is not just politics. It is a war on the human soul; on the freedom to believe, to love, and to live in peace as children of God.

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What We Must Remember

A society that removes individual choice cannot sustain freedom.

And when belief is punished, all human action becomes enslaved.

Sudan shows what happens when a nation replaces the religious freedom with totalitarianism and government coercion: freedom dies, dignity collapses, and poverty spreads like plague.

We who live in relative peace must not look away.

Their suffering is a warning….and a call to crush totalitarian systems before they have time to flourish. 

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A Call to Prayer

Pray for the men trying to protect their families, widows and orphans, for pastors in hiding, for the traumatized children of war who have seen their churches and families reduced to ash.

Pray for courage among those who still choose Jesus even when it costs them everything. Sacrificial love is the greatest love there is!

Pray for conversion of hearts among those who persecute them.

And pray that freedom — both of faith and of conscience — may rise again in Sudan.

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”

May that seed, watered by tears and faith, bloom again on Sudanese soil.

O God of all power and mercy,
who gave Your Son to bear the Cross for the salvation of the world,
look with compassion upon Your servants who suffer for your name’s sake.

Strengthen their faith, increase their hope, even as they are martyred,
and grant that their patient endurance may lead many souls to conversion.
Protect them by Your grace and bring them to the joy of eternal peace.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, forever and ever.
Amen.