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Sudan: Local officials demolish church building with bulldozer

Oct 22, 2015 5:17 pm By Robert Spencer

It was just a zoning issue, you see. The area is zoned for business. What? The local mosque? What about the local mosque? Er, uh, the area is zoned for business — and mosques!

Perhaps the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops could send a representative to Omdurman to explain to these Islamic supremacists how they’re misunderstanding their peaceful and tolerant religion.

Sudan demolished church

“Local Officials Demolish Church Building in Sudan; Nearby mosque withstanding, authorities claim area zoned for business,” Morning Star News, October 22, 2015:

JUBA, South Sudan, October 22, 2015 (Morning Star News) – Police in Omdurman, Sudan demolished a church building on Wednesday (Oct. 21), sources said.

A bulldozer rammed down the Sudanese Lutheran Church building in the Karari area of Omdurman, twin city of Khartoum across the Nile River, church leaders said. The building was reportedly also used by an Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation.

Local authorities said they tore down the building because it was located in an area designated for business. Area Christians said they did not accept this rationale as a mosque stands nearby. Karari officials had told church leaders that they would not demolish the building but later gave them 72 hours’ notice to prepare for its destruction, church leaders said.

“The government has lied to us, because they told us that this church will not be demolished,” one leader said on condition of anonymity.

Appeals from the church to let the building remain were dismissed. The congregation will find it difficult to find a place to worship this Sunday.

“This is something that was well planned,” another church leader said.

Sudan since 2012 has and expelled foreign Christians and bulldozed church buildings, usually on the pretext that they belonged to South Sudanese. They have also raided Christian bookstores and arrested Christians.

Sudanese authorities on Feb. 17, 2014 demolished a church building in Omdurman without prior notice, area sources said. Bulldozers accompanied by local police and personnel from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) destroyed the Sudanese Church of Christ building in the Ombada area of Omdurman, they said.

On Aug. 24, 2014, NISS agents padlocked the building of the 500-member Sudan Pentecostal Church (SPC) in Khartoum, which housed the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC).

Harassment, arrests and persecution of Christians have intensified since the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, when President Omar al-Bashir vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) and recognize only Islamic culture and the Arabic language. The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Endowments announced in April 2013 that no new licenses would be granted for building new churches in Sudan, citing a decrease in the South Sudanese population.

Sudan fought a civil war with the south Sudanese from 1983 to 2005, and in June 2011, shortly before the secession of South Sudan the following month, the government began fighting a rebel group in the Nuba Mountains that has its roots in South Sudan.

Due to its treatment of Christians and other human rights violations, Sudan has been designated a Country of Particular Concern by the U.S. State Department since 1999, and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended the country remain on the list in its 2015 report.

Sudan ranked sixth on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2015 World Watch List of 50 countries where Christians face most persecution, moving up from 11th place the previous year.

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    What does Clock Boy have to say about this? Did he bring it up to his new buddy Barack Hussein, or hadn’t he yet learned of this anti-Christian Jihad operation when feted in the White House? More importantly, what does his dad Mohamed Mohamed have to say about this terrible incident? Surely he could give a speech on it at MIT or maybe in the lunchroom of Facebook or Google before splitting for his new pad in Qatar.

  2. nicu says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    And that comes over to Europe for asylum : they rob super markets in gangs !

  3. ZAHEER HUSAIN KHAN says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    WELL IT IS CLEARLY UNISLAMIC HARAAM ACT . NO PLACE OF WORSHIP OF ANY RELIGION IS ALLOWED TO BE DEMOLISHED .LATER WAHABBIES HAVE BEEN THE USUAL CULPRIT OF THIS CRIME, PROPHET OF ISLAM EVEN PUT THE ONUS OF PROTECTING THE PLACES OF WORSHIP OF YAHOOD O NASARAH ON DEVOUT BELIEVERS . SO THERE CANNOT BE ANY EXCUSE .

    • Angemon says

      Oct 22, 2015 at 6:02 pm

      Can churches be build or repaired under sharia law?

  4. somehistory says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    The mosque…the barracks as it is otherwise known…is a business…they build clocks and things that resemble bombs and hand grenades and they talk around the table in the *war room.* All the while, they clean guns and learn the trade of warfare.

    • Mischief Maker in the Land says

      Oct 22, 2015 at 6:16 pm

      They collect their share of the protection money business.

  5. abad says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Terrorist training centers qualify as a business, no?

  6. Christianblood says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    These muslim terrorists may have destroyed one church building in Sudan but America and the West are DISMANTLING and destroying the heart and the soul and the very spirit of Christianity and Biblical Christian morality by replacing them with radical and evil moral relativist doctrines which disseminate destructive moral corruption in societies. America and the West are much more destructive to Christianity than those muslim fanatics who are destroying physical buildings. Physical buildings can be rebuilt and restored but how can spiritual and moral principals be re-instated after they are banned and destroyed?

  7. American says

    Oct 22, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    https://instagram.com/p/9JbybMie1l/

    The lies abbout the Temple Mount that a Mosque in Minnesota is promoting

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