ICC Note:
The Sudanese government was supposed to demolish 27 churches, but has delayed that action because of an appeal. Sudan refuses permits to Christians who want to build churches forcing Christians to hold prayer services in houses, unmarked with no Christian symbols like crosses. Hopefully the demolishing of 27 churches will not just be stalled, but revoked completely.
3/01/2017 Sudan (All Africa) – The demolition of 27 churches in the capital of Sudan has been delayed to later this week after an appeal was made to the Bahri Appeal Court on Monday.
The churches are located north and east of the Nile, in Soba El Aradi and one in Jebel Awliya in Khartoum. Lawyer Dimas James Marjan made the appeal against the demolition to the Administrative Appeal Court after attempts to make an appeal to the responsible ministry, he told Radio Dabanga.
The dispute started concerning the removal of three churches when land administrations as well as the ministry refused to provide the lawyers defending the case with the removal order.
“We were surprised to discover in that order that there were 25 churches in total scheduled for removal. Later two churches were added, one in Soba El Aradi and the other in Jebel Awliya.”
The new court session at Bahri court is scheduled for this Wednesday.
 
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