Khartoum — 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 government has stopped granting permits to build new churches in Sudan while ordering the demolition of a number of churches in the capital during the past years. In October 2015, two churches of the British Evangelical Lutheran Church in Omdurman were demolished in Omdurman.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 28, 2017 14:10 UTC