West Texas rock. (Sudan).Folks in Midland, Texas Midland is the county seat of Midland CountyGR6 located on the Southern Plains of the western area of the U.S. State of Texas. As of the 2006 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a total population of 102,073. , are fed up with slavery and they aren't going to take it anymore. In a major rally against slaver), in Sudan and a "Rock the Desert" Christian music Christian music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding the Christian life, as well as (in terms of contemporary music) to give a Christian alternative to main stream secular music. festival that drew more than 30,000 Christian youth, organizers in Midland shined a light on Sudan as one of the world's worst violators of human and religious rights. The concert's top billing went to musician Ken Tamplin Ken Tamplin is a Christian Rock performer. Ken was born December 11, 1963 in Long Beach, California, United States. Early years Ken began playing guitar at age six and singing at age nine. , who has donated all artist royalties from his recording Make Me Your Voice to aid persecuted Sudanese Christians. "Concern about Sudan ranges from churches to rock stars," said Jesse Sage of the Anti-Slavery Group (www.iAbolish.com). The group now has 20,000 activists, many of them students, said Sage. Rev. Ray Hammond, who went to Sudan from Bethel AME See AIT. Church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, said it was "sweet irony" for a descendant of slaves like himself to help slaves in modem Africa. "Beyond the task of emancipation is the challenge to bring peace and development to southern Sudan," he said. The slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan in Sudan has flourished during a 17-year civil war that has produced 2 million deaths and 5 million displaced persons. |
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