ICC Note: Muslim extremists from north Sudan have raided a South Sudan town burning a Christian church, according to Morning Star News.  The attack happened Jan. 16 to a Sudanese Church of Christ building, but no casualties were reported. Sudan has heavily persecuted Christians from the Nuba Mountains near the Yida region, as Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has pummeled Christian communities with airstrikes. Yida is seven miles from the north Sudan border.

1/26/16 Yida, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists from Sudan have been arrested in connection with the burning of a church building in South Sudan, sources said.

Members of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in the refugee settlement of Yida awoke the morning of Jan. 16 to find their worship building in flames, area Christian leaders said. Tens of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s South Kordofan state have set up homes in Yida, about seven miles from the Sudanese border.

“I learned that those who set our church on fire were sent from Sudan purposely,” said a church leader who wished to remain unnamed.

The following week his congregation of nearly 200 people held their worship service in the open air in the remains of the charred church building, a structure of unbaked bricks. Most church members are ethnic Nuba who have fled bombing of civilians in South Kordofan in Sudan’s fight with rebels.

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