Islamic law forbids the Christians who live as subjugated dhimmis under the hegemony of the Muslims to construct new churches or to repair old ones, so that their communities will remain in a perpetual state of decline.
“Sudan bans construction of new churches,” Pravoslavie, July 13, 2014 (thanks to Filip):
Sudan has prohibited the construction of any new church in the country which has been under an Islamic regime since 1989.
The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments Shalil Abdullah announced that the government will henceforth not issue permits for the building of churches in the country.
Minister Shalil Abdullah told the press on Saturday that the existing churches are enough for the Christians population remaining in Sudan after the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
He pointed out that South Sudan is now an independent country with a majority of its people being Christians, and that the number of Christians still in Sudan is small.
The ban elicited immediate criticism from Sudanese Christian leaders. Secretary-General of Sudan Council of Churches Reverend Kori El Ramli told radio Tamazuj that the statement made by the minister contradicts the country’s constitution.
CHRISTIAN MINORITY
“Yes, we are a minority, but we have freedom of worship and belief just like the rest of the Sudanese as long as we are Sudanese nationals like them,” he explained.
The bishop also criticized the recent demolition of a church near a suburb located in Khartoum North by local authorities.
On July 1, authorities demolished the Sudanese Christ Church at El Izba residential area in Khartoum North.
Kuwa Shamal Kuku, the bishop of the demolished church, expressed his discontent saying the demolition was carried out under the pretext of protecting the land.
Sudan sentenced to death a Christian woman last May after she refused to renounce her faith. She was freed by the Sudanese appeal court, but she is still staying in the American embassy in Khartoum after being prevented from leaving the country last month.
The verdict of the Sudanese court sparked international criticism on religious freedom in the country.
john spielman says
all Christians in muslim lands should emigrate to the west!
boakai ngombu says
given the seeming present state of State, I don’t think the US would allow them in
Charli Main says
They would, if they could but they are always at the back of the queue of all those poor Muslim” refugees” and poor Muslim “asylum” seekers.
Wave a Koran, howl Allah Akbar and move to the front of the queue.
Angemon says
““Yes, we are a minority, but we have freedom of worship and belief just like the rest of the Sudanese as long as we are Sudanese nationals like them,” he explained.”
Someone hand this man a copy of “The Myth of Islamic Tolerance“…
dumbledoresarmy says
And a copy of Bat Yeor’s “The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam”. Or just Mark Durie’s “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”, which needs to be translated into all languages spoken by non-Muslim minorities currently oppressed by Muslim majorities, and also into languages spoken by non-Muslims who have Muslim countries next door. Frankly, it – or at the very least, a precis of Dr Durie’s main points about the intensively-and-intentionally-abusive dhimma system – should be translated into, inter alia, Hebrew, the dialect of Arabic used by the local Christians within Israel, Russian, Chinese, Thai, Tagalog, Spanish, French, Hindi (and a bunch of other regional / state languages of India), plus the main indigenous languages of the non-Muslim African states. Let everyone know *exactly* what mohammedans do to non-Muslims whenever they (the mohammedans) possess or achieve dominance.
PJG says
When he said they have freedom of worship, I gather he was talking about the Constitution. He knows dhimmitude; all Christians there know their situation and have stories to tell, unless they are indispensible such as a surgeon I know who is in denial because she is treated so well.