Church History – Protestant Missions

Sudan

1500 BCE – Early History
  • Known to Egyptians as Kush
  • Later, the Latin name Nubia
  • c 527 Justinian made Nubia a stronghold of Christianity
1500 – 1889 Islamic Kingdoms
  • 1504 Fung founded the kingdom of Sennar
  • 1820 Ottoman rule
1899 – 1955 British Rule
  • Catholic Missionaries began work
  • Also Anglicans and Swedish Pentacostals
  • British limited missionary work to southern Sudan
1956 – Independence
  • 1962 – First civil war in south
  • 1964 – All foreign missionaries evicted
  • 1983 – Sharia Law imposed
1983 – Second Civil War
  • Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by John Garang revolted in South
  • North sent armed forces south to burn crops and bomb villages
  • Resulting famine displaced 4 million people
  • Murdered Christian pastors and priests
  • Between 14,000 and 200,000 women and children taken into slavery
  • Genocide in Darfur region
  • 2005 – John Garang killed in plane crash
2011 – South attains independence
  • Civil wars continued to plague South Sudan
  • 2019 – Military topples Bashir in coup

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