Pastors Yat Michael and David Yein, two South Sudan ministers are currently being held in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, for offending Islamic beliefs and inciting organised groups.
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Christian Post reports that some Churches have also been destroyed in the region.
Both pastors, in a telephone interview with CBN, said they are ready to die for the Gospel.
Narrating his ordeal, Pastor Michael said "When they interviewed me, they asked me why I'm preaching here. I say, 'I am preaching because this is my call. I am a pastor. I must speak the Word of God.”
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'They say, 'No, you don't need to preach the Word of God with a hidden agenda.' I said, 'No, I don't have any hidden agenda.' They accused me [of being] a spy here.'
Pastor Yein also said he is ready to die, adding that he believes God called him to suffer.
The CEO,Open Doors USA, a Christian nonprofit that aids persecuted believers throughout the world, David Curry while speaking to Fox News about the two pastors’ case said 'This case, in particular, we feel the charges are trumped up. These are just good citizens practising their Christian faith. But the Sudanese government is using any tactic they can to push Christianity out of the market place and out of daily life, and unfortunately they are having some success.'
Sudan is sixth on the World's Watch List of countries where Christians are constantly persecuted.
