ICC Note:

 Bahri Evangelical Church elder Younan Abdullah died on Monday (April 3) from injuries sustained in a raid on an embattled Christian school, according to Christian News sources. Younan and others were defending women at the Evangelical School of Sudan. Christians had staged a protest against the attempted seizure of the school by a Muslim businessman. “Several men from the nearby Bahri Evangelical Church rushed to the church to try and protect the women. The armed men attacked them, and two church members were stabbed.” Edler Abdullah later died of his injuries.

04/06/2017 South Sudan (Christian News) – A church elder on Monday (April 3) died from injuries sustained in a raid on an embattled Christian school by supporters of a Muslim business interest in Omdurman, Sudan, sources said.

Younan Abdullah, an elder with Bahri Evangelical Church, died in a hospital after being stabbed while he and others were defending women at the Evangelical School of Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) sources told Morning Star News.

Christians had staged a protest against the attempted seizure of the school by a Muslim businessman, they said. Police from the Omdurman Central Division along with a group supported by Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowment arrived at the school first and arrested all the men in an attempt to hand it over to the businessman, they said.

Advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC) confirmed that after the arrests, about 20 men, including members of a committee the government has illegally imposed on the SPEC, arrived at the school with knives and other weapons and began to beat the women.

“Several men from the nearby Bahri Evangelical Church rushed to the church to try and protect the women,” MEC leaders said in a statement. “The armed men attacked them, and two church members were stabbed.”

Elder Abdullah later died of his injuries, and a second church member, Ayoub Kumama, was treated at a nearby hospital and has been released, according to MEC.

Abdullah is survived by his wife and two young children.

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