The Muslim family of an 18-year-old Sudanese refugee in the northern border region of South Sudan on Jan. 8 expelled her from their home for her faith in Christ, Morning Star News said.
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Amona Ibrahim Kaki, a refugee from Sudan’s Nuba Mountains area living in the Ajoung Thok refugee camp, had put her faith in Christ after she secretly began reading a Bible.
After discovering on Christmas Day that she had put her faith in Christ, her family was awaiting word from her old brother on her fate, the source said. On that Thursday a relative had pleaded with the brother over the phone to allow her to remain at their home, but he angrily refused.
After attending a worship service on Dec. 25 at the Gloria Baptist Church in Ajoung Thok, neighbors monitoring her reported it to her family. Her parents asked her why she went to a church service. Kaki told them that she had had a personal encounter with Jesus and was now a Christian.
‘Extremely vulnerable’
Her parents reacted with immediate hostility and, in an attempt to isolate her from the Christian community, confiscated her mobile phone, sources said. The family warned her to renounce Christ and return to Islam or else they would disown her, expel her from their home and demand she change her name from that of the family, sources said.
“She does not know what the coming days hold for her,” said one source. “In these border areas, where family law and religious tradition carry immense weight, a young woman in her position is extremely vulnerable.”
In December 2020, the State Department removed Sudan from its Special Watch List.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written and originally published by Morning Star News.
