Famine Ravages Persecuted Christians in Sudan

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

1 John 3: 17

Friday: Christian Persecution

One of the places where Christian persecution is the worst is Sudan. Christians in Sudan have faced death, rapes, slavery and torture at the hands of Janjaweed, the Muslim government’s Unified Militia.  

What the rest of us have done has been mostly to ignore them and their plight. There have been various private organizations who have tried to help, often at great cost to themselves, but they don’t have the power to help of United States government.  

Then Jan 7, 2025, during the last days of President Biden’s administration, the State Department labeled what was happening in Sudan a genocide. This was an important step. It opened the way for the United States of America to take action to help these persecuted Christians. 

All the most useful things Christians in America have done to help persecuted Christians in Sudan have come through our government. Our elected officials used USAID TO send food to Sudanese Christians who have fled to various refugee camps. Our tax dollars kept our brothers in sisters in Christ from dying of starvation.

That’s only right since we are Americans. We elect our government. It’s our government in a real way. It’s also our tax dollars. 

When Donald Trump took office, he failed completely to follow through on the State Department’s move in labeling the persecution of Christians in Sudan a genocide, even though that gave him great latitude in doing so. What he did instead was to completely do away with USAID, including food aid to the persecuted and starving Christians in Sudan. 

Almost immediately after that, instead of working to stop the genocide, Trump made a deal with the government in Sudan to warehouse people that Trump wanted to deport from the USA into their prisons. I shudder to think of what awaits the people Trump deports, considering the way Sudan treats its Christians. 

I haven’t read a single word about Trump even raising the question with the Sudanese government about the genocidal war against their Christian citizens. But it has been well publicized how Trump has aided this genocide by ending America’s food aid.   

Trump officials held their prayer meetings and wore their bright shiny crosses, while they shuttered USAID in toto. Millions of people are going to die because of this. 

The food we had been sending to starving people stopped. Trump sentenced vast numbers of innocent of people to death by starvation. Not only that, but America’s family farms suffered because USAID isn’t purchasing their crops. 

All this so our tax money can be used to make a few billionaires even richer and more powerful. 

Of course, when you shut something down slam! there is a period of adjustment. In this case, USAID had food in the pipeline, ready to be shipped to starving people. 

America had 500 tons of food, already sitting on the docks, waiting to be shipped. USAID workers were losing their jobs. They didn’t have any financial reason to do this, but, it appears they have individual consciences and a sense of compassion and responsibility toward other human beings. Instead of just walking away, they lobbied and pleaded with Trump officials to allow the food to go to starving people. 

What the Trump regime decided to do instead was spend another $100,000 to destroy the food and put it in waste piles in Dubai. 

This post addresses two themes I repeat on this blog. 

They are:

1. Christian persecution in the world today.

2. How many people do you have to kill before you’re not pro life anymore?

I want you to think about that second question. Right wing politicians trade on their supposed “godliness” to get votes. But do they follow Christ? Do you seriously believe that they are pro life? 

1. Sudan famine ravages persecuted Christians amid civil war

2. ‘People will starve’ because of US aid cut to Sudan

3. Death toll rising in Sudan after USAID cuts

4. Genocidal Militia Continues to Persecute Christians Across Sudan