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You've been on Truth Talk many times. Your heart broke yesterday as we were in D.C. at a big conference, and you showed a movie, a brand new movie, for the first time I saw it. There were tears in the eye, in the room, tears in the eyes. All kinds of civil war and unrest in Sudan. But there are 300 children that are dying daily there. Talk to me, sir.
What is going on? Thank you, Stu. And I'm so grateful for you and for your leadership and your friendship and your love of God and his people. In Sudan, right now, it is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to USAID, according to international observers. And there have been more than a million people who've already died in just the last 20 months. In the Nuba Mountains, where we're serving, there's a community of about 4 million people who voted with their feet to move to this region, or to come back to this region where they're from, called Southern Kordofan, so that they can have self-determination, but most importantly, religious freedom. And the church believers are the real heroes in the crisis in Sudan right now. There's a tremendous opportunity for the gospel, because many people who've been living in the city under Islamic rule are moving back to the countryside in these liberated areas. And the ones who are laying down their lives to bring them there are believers. And the ones who are receiving them when they come are believers. But the needs are tremendous.
They're overwhelming. As you mentioned, there are more than 300 people a day dying because of a government-manufactured famine. And we have a real opportunity to stand with God's people in not only proclaiming the gospel, but in being a resource to them as they serve, as they lay down their life for these dear ones who are coming, and as they present a very strong and powerful witness for Jesus Christ. And this was all precipitated by, or caused by, you mentioned 20 months or so ago, the unrest, the civil war, the rogue regime in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. There's North Sudan, there's South Sudan, two countries now.
In Khartoum, people are being just killed, slaughtered. And so we had to get them out. Persecution Project, you were on the front lines of that. We couldn't advertise that very loudly, because if the enemy found out these people were there, they'd kill them. And that's exactly what happened. So suddenly you were able to get a lot of people out.
A lot of our listeners stepped up and donated to Persecution Project Foundation to help literally getting a bus in, loading it up and getting them to the Nuba Mountains, the closest safe haven, where a whole bunch of people were trying just to get freedom so they could live and work and raise their families. And yet the Islamists aren't stopping. They're now looking at people. They're going after them. And they're bombing hospitals? They're bombing schools? Churches?
Brad, women and children? What's going on? Well, you know, Stu, there's been an Islamofascist reign of terror for decades in Sudan. And the reason why the Nuba Church and the Nuba people have been the number one target is because in that community you've had exponential growth of the church. A little over 100 years ago in 1917, when it was during the time of the British condominium in Sudan, missionaries came and the very first convert among the Nuba, who are one of the two indigenous groups in Sudan, the very first convert was in 1917 in a place called Haibon.
And Haibon is a place where we are heavily engaged in ministry work right now. And from one convert in 1917 to the present day of 2024, we now have more than 3.5 million Nuba in Sudan who identify as Christian. And those Nuba are responsible for spreading the gospel to all the other ethnicities and tribes in the Sudan. And that's why this Islamofascist system, an establishment in Sudan that was birthed by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, that's why they have been working relentlessly to try to wipe out the Nuba people. Because the Nuba people are identified with Christianity and with the gospel.
And there are among the Nuba people some real heroes of the faith. We've just produced this short film. And this film is not about us, it's about them. It's about especially a couple of people who spearheaded the evacuation of more than 3,000 people from the fires of Khartoum when war broke out last year.
And it's called Exodus. And so pretty soon we're going to be setting up a site so your listeners can go in and hear that story and see the story and be inspired by the courage. I think all of us as Americans were inspired by the courage of our president-elect when after he took a bullet, he stood up and said, Fight, fight, fight. Well, I've been inspired for the last 30 years by the courage of believers in the Nuba Mountains who've been standing up and saying, Fight, fight, fight for the gospel for the last three decades.
And when you get to know them, you will love them. And you will be proud for any opportunity that you can to serve them and to be a resource to them. So I encourage you and your listeners, if you get a chance to visit our website persecutionproject.org, find out what we're doing, but more importantly what the church is doing, what God's people are doing in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. Yeah, and this involves the whole scope of medical missions, medicine, mosquito nets, Bibles. You're trying to equip pastors. You're trying to get pastors on motorcycles.
You've had other ministries come alongside because you guys have a way of getting in there, Brad. This is really ground zero of this awful genocide in Sudan. Christians are being slaughtered. Your brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered. But it's interesting that even Muslims are fleeing to this area and you're leading them to Christ. So there's a lot of Muslim evangelism because they're saying, Wait a second, why aren't these people, these Christians wanting to kill us?
They want to love us and share their Jesus with us. In the worst times of history, in the times where it seems like are the darkest of days, that's when the light shines the brightest. And in Sudan right now, there are so many people who are looking up because they have no place else to look. There are so many people that have been under the thumb of Islamofascist tyranny and now a million of them, four million of them, voted with their feet and moved to an area where they have religious freedom. And there are believers there who are pointing them to Jesus Christ. And now God is giving them the ears to hear.
So there's a tremendous opportunity and it's a great privilege for us to stand with some of these really courageous heroes of the faith who are right now laying down their lives for their neighbor and for their community. PersecutionProject.org. And this little dark nefarious secret that you're not hearing is not only does this radical Islamist regime in Khartoum, not only are they blockading all these people off and cutting them off from food and supplies, but even our government, they're telling the world, oh, this is a humanitarian crisis. They're causing our government to support that.
So people have no idea how widespread this is that even our tax dollars are supporting this kind of nonsense, Brad. Yeah, it's unfortunate and tragic that Sudan has really been a missed opportunity for many, many decades from a policy point of view for our government to stand with our natural allies. Those are the people that believe in the things, they're striving for the things that are enshrined in our Bill of Rights, self-determination and religious freedom. Those were at the core of the collapse of the current regime because this regime has been the biggest, not only exporter of Islamofascist terror around the world, but practicing terror against their own people, not only based on their race, but based on their identification with Jesus Christ. And so the shame is, and has been, is that rather than standing with our natural allies who are Christians, we have attempted over and over again as a government to reform and to resuscitate and give life support to our natural enemies. So I pray that that's going to change with this new administration, but our hope is in the Lord, our hope is not in who's present, who's in the White House, our hope is in God. And like I said, this is one of the moments, existential moments in Sudan's history.
It's a great opportunity. God has opened so many doors that were previously closed. He's put people together that were separated in the past because of war and because of that regime, and now there's opportunities for them to take a fresh look at the gospel. And many, many lives are being saved, not only physically, but for eternity. Pray for Sudan. Pray for these dear brothers and sisters in Christ. Pray the gospel will continue to go out. And I can assure you, friends, if you support persecutionproject.org, they will get whatever you give them straight over to the field to help these dear saints, these dear souls with medicine, with Bibles, with relief, with food, and get their newsletter, persecutionproject.org, because that newsletter is like reading Fox's Book of Martyrs. You'll read about heroes. You'll read about what God's doing through these wonderful folks and from Medina to these other unsung heroes over there, Brad, who are really laying their life out. They literally are standing.
You've had Sudanese run faster than you, running from attacks because they were going to block bullets for you. These people are just, they love Jesus, and it shows, I think we need more of what they have, more than they need. They definitely need what we have, but we need more of what they have in terms of their spirit and their love for Jesus, don't we? Well, we really thank God for the work that he's doing there. I really thank God for your listeners who have been a part of this ministry for many years and for your friendship. And let's all just remember to pray for the persecuted church all over the world, and let's remember to pray for our persecuted family there in Sudan as well.
persecutionproject.org And we're going to throw a link up at some point to this new movie at the Truth Network website, Truth Talk website. Bless you, Brad. Thank you, man. Thank you, brother. Truth Talk Live!
