Tag: Khartoum

Sudan defends human rights record, saying it ‘enjoys religious freedom and unprecedented openness’

July 4, 2017 Sudan Khartoum, Religious freedom, Sanctions

In response to concerns raised over its human rights record by the US embassy in Khartoum, Sudan has insisted that the country “enjoys religious freedom” and “unprecedented openness”, reports press agency AFP. The US embassy’s comments came ahead of talks next week about the potential lifting of 20 years of . . . Read More

Sudan churches risk letter to government on ‘systematic violations’, including church demolition

June 23, 2017 Sudan Algadisia, Bahri, Khartoum, NISS, Omar al-Bashir, Omdurman, Pentecostals, Sudanese Church of Christ

The Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) has written an open letter to the Khartoum government protesting “the systematic violation of Christian religious freedoms”, including the recent demolition of one of their churches in the Suba area of the capital, Khartoum. The SCOC represents about 220,000 of about two million Christians . . . Read More

Second church in 10 days torn down in Sudan

May 23, 2017 Sudan Algadisia, Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church

A Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) building has been demolished in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, ten days after the destruction of another SCOC building in nearby Soba, 12 miles south of the city Christian charity Middle East Concern (MEC) reports that the second demolition took place on 17 May in Khartoum’s . . . Read More

Sudanese government destroys another church

May 10, 2017 Sudan Churches, Khartoum, Pentecostals, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Sudanese Church of Christ

Sudanese government officials demolished the Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) building in the Soba region, 20km south of the capital Khartoum, on Sunday. Two church members were detained and interrogated but later released. The two men were arrested by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) because they had refused . . . Read More

Part of church compound in Sudan illegally occupied

May 2, 2017 Sudan Bahri, Churches, Khartoum, Lutheran Church of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, Omdurman, Pentecostals, Sharia, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Younan Abdulla

Unidentified men torched the Sudanese Lutheran church in the town of Gadaref situated in the east of the country late night Oct 17, 2015 when no one was around to douse the flames. Local Christians suspect this to be the handiwork of Muslim extremists who want to eradicate Christianity from the region.

Police and an armed mob occupied part of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) compound last Wednesday (26 April), reports Middle East Concern (MEC). It is the same location where, earlier this month, two church members were stabbed during a protest against appropriation of a school there. The compound in . . . Read More

Church demolition appeal due in Khartoum

March 3, 2017 Sudan Churches, Khartoum, Petr Jašek, Sudan

The Bahri Court of Appeal in Khartoum was due to hear on 1 March the case relating to a government order to demolish 27 Christian places of worship, reports Radio Dabanga. An appeal lodged on 27 February succeeded in delaying the demolition of the churches, located north and east of . . . Read More

Czech shared Sudan prison cell with Islamic State convicts who beat him up and abused him

February 27, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Petr Jašek, Sudan

A Czech Christian aid worker, freed from prison in Sudan on 26 Feb, has spoken of how the prison authorities treated him. “The first two months were probably the most severe for me because I was placed in a cell together with members of the Islamic State, who humiliated me . . . Read More

UPDATE: Czech aid worker freed to fly to Prague after his Foreign Minister visits Sudan

February 26, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Petr Jašek

UPDATE (26 Feb) A Czech aid worker, Petr Jašek, 52, detained in Sudan since December 2015, has been pardoned and freed by President Omar Bashir – after the Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaorálek visited Sudan this weekend to seek his release. He has flown back to Prague with the Foreign Minister today (Sunday . . . Read More

Demolition plans for 21 Sudan church buildings

February 2, 2017 Sudan Churches, Gadaref, Khartoum, Lutheran Church of Sudan, Omdurman, Sudan

A lawyer representing four churches threatened in Oct 2016 with demolition in Sudan has uncovered plans for a further 21 places of worship to be knocked down. Middle East Concern reports that in a recent court ruling the lawyer was granted the right to see the official order for demolition. . . . Read More

Sudan government demolishes Bahri church building

January 13, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Bahri, Churches, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Petr Jašek, Sudan

A house belonging to a Sudanese church has been demolished by government officials, reports Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern. The Bahri Evangelical Church, on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, has seen a number of its buildings damaged or demolished since 2013, when a committee imposed by the . . . Read More

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