{"id":26166,"date":"2013-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/the-right-to-peacefully-enthuse-others-490\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:37","slug":"the-right-to-peacefully-enthuse-others-490","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/prayer\/the-right-to-peacefully-enthuse-others-490\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to peacefully enthuse others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>When South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, it was hoped that this would bring an end to years of ethnic and religiously-motivated strife. But the Government of Sudan continues to crack down on Christians.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Christians are being arrested and deported at short notice, and their property confiscated. In 2012, Christmas was not officially observed as a public holiday. In April 2013, the government announced that no new church licences would be issued. All of this reinforces President Omar al-Bashir&#8217;s repeated calls for a &#8220;100% Islamic Sudan&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Please stand with us in prayer as our Operation 18 campaign fights for this right to be upheld:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Ask God to protect foreign Christians whose lives are uprooted after they are deported;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that Christians in Sudan would be strengthened even as they endure increasing opposition;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for church leaders trying to encourage their congregations in these difficult times;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the threats against churches and church leaders in the north would stop;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that Christians and Muslims would find ways of living together peacefully;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that a multicultural, multi-religious vision of Sudan would triumph over a restrictive and singular vision;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God for favour for CSW&#8217;s Africa team as they work to bring cases of Christian persecution in Sudan to the attention of governments.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, it was hoped that this would bring an end to years of ethnic and religiously-motivated strife. But the Government of Sudan continues to crack down on Christians.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[152,157],"class_list":["post-26166","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-sub-saharan-africa","regions-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40836,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26166\/revisions\/40836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}