Church service attacked, six children killed

Grenade explosion in church kills 6 children

A soldier detonated a hand grenade Thursday at an evening worship service, killing himself and five children and wounding four others.

The reason for the incident is unknown at this time.

According to Pastors Francis Ayul and Saphano Riak Chol, leaders of FEBAC-Sudan, the newly-formed association of evangelical Baptist churches, “Rev. John Monykuer was leading an evening worship when an unidentified man in military attire walked into the service and detonated a grenade. Five children were killed instantly. Four others, including two children, Pastor Monykuer and the wife of Pastor Michael Makuin Kuol, were taken to the hospital in nearby Malakal, a former government garrison town on the White Nile. One of the children died Saturday morning. The other three are still in critical condition.”

This tragic incident shows that even with the “peace” in Southern Sudan, acts of violence and persecution still are a reality for Christians in southern Sudan, where more than two decades of ethnic cleansing left 2 million dead and displaced 4 million more.

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