{"id":13513,"date":"2024-03-11T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/ex-slave-was-captured-as-a-child-and-forced-to-embrace-islam-and-the-quran-then-he-met-jesus\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:48:42","slug":"ex-slave-was-captured-as-a-child-and-forced-to-embrace-islam-and-the-quran-then-he-met-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/ex-slave-was-captured-as-a-child-and-forced-to-embrace-islam-and-the-quran-then-he-met-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Slave Was Captured as a Child and Forced to Embrace Islam and the Quran. Then, He Met Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>A Christian nonprofit worker helping bring Sudanese slaves to freedom revealed a touching story that showcases the physical and spiritual importance of his organization\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International (CSI), recently joined CBN News Christians to explain how Christians and indigenous religions in South Sudan have been the hardest hit over the past few decades by dangerous slave raids.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www2.cbn.com\/news\/world\/sudanese-christian-slaves-saved-modern-day-underground-railroad-its-extremely-dangerous\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.cbn.com\/news\/world\/sudanese-christian-slaves-saved-modern-day-underground-railroad-its-extremely-dangerous\">previously reported<\/a>, CSI helped free 1,500 Sudanese slaves last year, bringing the total liberated by the group over the past 30 years to over 100,000. Veldcamp shared the horrific ordeals these captives face.<\/p>\n<p>From sexual violence to family separation and forced conversion to Islam, many have suffered. And yet many have held on to their faith.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christian Slaves Saved in Modern-Day &#039;Underground Railroad&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qCOYv4q8LLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking of one young man I met \u2026 who was just old enough when he was enslaved to know that he didn\u2019t come from a Muslim background but not old enough to really know anything about Christianity at all,\u201d Veldkamp said. \u201cSo, he grew up in slavery, and he grew up being forced to learn the Quran, and go to Islamic school at night, and work during the day, always being told he was a Muslim, always being forced to pray like a Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the man always resisted the identity that was imposed upon him. And when he finally became free, he explored the Christian faith heritage of which he had been deprived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he came back to South Sudan, he had the chance for the first time to learn what it meant to be a Christian, and he learned the Jesus story,\u201d Veldkamp said. \u201cAnd he told me the Jesus story is way better \u2014 Jesus came and he gave himself for the world; he doesn\u2019t force anyone to follow him. He doesn\u2019t force anyone to worship him; he just loves us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veldkamp said these comments stuck with him, as he reflected on his own experience growing up in a Christian household and sometimes taking the biblical story for granted, especially when he failed to take the time to meditate on it. Seeing the beauty of this man\u2019s encounter with Christianity, though, showed Veldkamp the power of that story of redemption and love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor him, he was encountering it for the first time,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd just that experience of understanding that grace for the first time \u2014 I always carried that around with me. It was a real blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2024\/02\/15\/sudanese-christian-slaves-saved-in-modern-day-underground-railroad-its-extremely-dangerous-work\/\">reported<\/a>, Veldkamp also discussed the history behind Sudanese slavery, breaking down the complexities that led tens of thousands into captivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we have two countries \u2014 Sudan and South Sudan,\u201d Veldkamp said. \u201cBut in the 1980s and 1990s, it was all just one country called Sudan, and that country was split by a civil war between the north, which is mostly Muslim and dominated by Arabs, and the south, which is mostly Christian and black African.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the Muslim government in the north started to use slavery as a \u201cweapon of war\u201d against the south, capturing people during the conflict, which ended in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Even nearly 20 years later, Veldkamp said many slaves are still \u201cstuck\u201d in detention, enduring painful and arduous lives. Watch him share\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qCOYv4q8LLI\">how his organization is helping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2024\/march\/ex-slave-was-captured-as-a-child-and-forced-to-embrace-islam-and-the-quran-then-he-met-jesus\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian nonprofit worker helping bring Sudanese slaves to freedom revealed a touching story that showcases the physical and spiritual importance of his organization\u2019s work. Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International (CSI), recently joined CBN News Christians to explain how Christians and indigenous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}