"The whole place is run by the police. Armed soldiers and government spies are everywhere. Priests and nuns are imprisoned for trivial reasons." So charges Roman Catholic Father William Dowds, a South African-born missionary, of the country where Christian missions are currently faring worst: the Sudan. Since last November, 77 Catholic priests (including Dowds), brothers and nuns, as well as 28 Protestant missionaries, have been exiled from the Sudan. As of last week, only about 50 missionaries, many of them aged and ill, were left to care for the 500,000 Sudanese Christians, four-fifths of them Catholics.
Sudan's anti-Christian campaign is...
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