{"id":42871,"date":"2014-03-03T02:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/morning_star_news_sudan_arrests_pastor_during_sermon_threatens_him\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T02:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:02:25","slug":"morning_star_news_sudan_arrests_pastor_during_sermon_threatens_him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42871","title":{"rendered":"(Morning Star News) Sudan Arrests Pastor During Sermon, Threatens Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese authorities arrested a pastor in Omdurman as he was preaching on Sunday (Feb. 23) and threatened that he would \u201cface justice\u201d\u009d unless he resigned his position, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department entered the compound of Omdurman Evangelical Church and arrested the Rev. Yahya Abdelrahim Nalu as part of a government plan to take over properties of the church\u2019s denomination, the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC), the sources said. Omdurman is opposite Khartoum on the River Nile.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments seeks to replace Nalu, senior leader at the church and moderator of the SPEC Synod, with a government-appointed committee that favors turning SPEC properties over to the government, they said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\/2014\/02\/sudan-arrests-preacher-during-service-threatens-him\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese authorities arrested a pastor in Omdurman as he was preaching on Sunday (Feb. 23) and threatened that he would \u201cface justice\u201d\u009d unless he resigned his position, sources said. Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department entered the compound of Omdurman<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42871\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,202,168,144,114,435,184,578,151,108,346,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sudan","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}