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Thousands of Eritrean Christians are walking to Sudan to escape brutal persecution. Conditions in Eritrea must be hellish indeed for them to risk crossing the Sahara Desert on foot.
Torture, beatings, arrests, imprisonment. These are among the brutal acts imposed by the Communist government of Eritrea against Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians in this East-African nation.As a result, thousands of Christian refugees are fleeing Eritrea in search of safety in neighboring Sudan - primarily in the capital city of Khartoum. They come on foot, walking hundreds of miles with little or no food or water. Many of them are mothers carrying babies. If they are caught stumbling across the arid wastes of Eastern Sudan, the Sudanese authorities transport them back across the Eritrean border where they face certain arrest.
Those who make it to Khartoum find shelter in crowded, squalid, ill-equipped structures where they fight a torturous battle for legal refugee status and for some source of economic support from which to eke out their temporary survival.
Some of the refugees move on from Khartoum, seeking to walk across the Sahara Desert, (can you imagine?) into Libya and on to the Mediterranean Sea, with the objective of "sailing" to freedom in Europe.
Most of them die in the desert or at sea.
Khartoum has two Eritrean Christian churches, one with 300 members and one with 500. The news story also says that Eritrean agents target leaders of the churches for assassination.
h/t: International Christian Concern
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