Violence against Christians in Sudan's civil war has intensified in recent months.  According to The Living Church, an independent Anglican Episcopal news publication, clergy and lay leaders increasingly targeted for killing, abduction and forced conversion.

The conflict, between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, began in 2023, with a third militia, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, also escalating attacks.

The RSF has targeted Christians since the war began, with soldiers publicly threatening to kill all Christians in areas under their control during a December 2024 attack. Church buildings have been destroyed, burned or forcibly occupied, and forced conversions to Islam have intensified.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has said indicators of genocide are emerging in Sudan, a pattern researchers compare to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which similar slogans and dehumanising language preceded mass killings.

 Most Rev  Ezekiel Kondo, Archbishop of Sudan, told The Living Church that Christians are "discriminated against and sometimes they experience challenges." He said, "I know of two pastors who were killed recently in the Nuba Mountains. A number of people were arrested and investigations are ongoing."

Among the dead is Pastor Abdel Ibris Jongool, shot on 24 July alongside six other Christians and who later died of his wounds, and Pastor Yaqob Ibrahim Tiao, abducted and later found killed. Catholic priest Fr Youhanna Al-Amin was also killed in June while resisting the looting of his church's medical supplies.

Archbishop Ezekiel stressed the war affects Muslims and Christians alike, saying: "It is not a religious war, but political, and ethnic as well."

However, senior church leader Ibrahim al-Amin said certain communities face systematic targeting, adding, "There are efforts to displace and even exterminate these communities because of their refusal to submit to the persecutors' agendas."