In 1995, CSI began to partner with local South Sudanese networks working to free their loved ones from slavery in Sudan. Thirty years later, these networks have liberated more than 160,000 people… and counting.
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160,000 and Counting
CSI has been working in Sudan since 1995 to liberate Christians and other non-Muslims who were forced into slavery by Islamist militias allied with the Khartoum regime. To date, we have rescued more than 160,000 people. Still, thousands remain in bondage. CSI’s work will not be done until all are free.
During the Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005, pro-government Islamist militias kidnapped tens of thousands of Christians and animists in southern Sudan and brought them to the north as slaves.
In 1995, working with a local underground network, CSI facilitated the liberation of a group of slaves for the first time and returned them to their homes. It was the beginning of CSI’s groundbreaking slave liberation work that still continues 30 years later. And the work will go on, in keeping with CSI founder Pastor Hansjürg Stückelberger’s promise that CSI would not give up its mission “until the last Sudanese slave is free”.
