On Sunday 7th May 2017, personnel from Jebel Aulia locality together with officials from
land authority, NISS and the combat riot police in Khartoum state of Sudan demolished
the church in Soba Aradi. The reason given was that the church building had
encroached on government land. This church was demolished when there is a pending
(ongoing) case where the demolition order was earlier challenged and the case is
before the administration court. However, there are many other churches that are
threatened with demolishing (appendix – 4).
This church is one of Sudanese Christ Churches and it was established in 1989.
Different Christian sects worshiped from it especially after the cessation of South Sudan
when twelve other churches were demolished. The twelve churches were demolished
between the years 2011 and 2015.
As demolition exercise went on, two people (Eng. Polos Salah and Mr. Nagi Abdalla)
were arrested for taking photos/pictures and other reasons. For instance, police ordered
them to break the locks of the church but they refused. They were later released after
spending hours at the police cell.
2.3.3 Unlawful Eviction of Church Leaders’ From Their Houses
The two evacuated families with their luggage
outside
On 14th August 2017, court police forced Pastor Yahya Abdurrahman, 44 years old,
married with one child and Pastor Sediq Abdalla 43 years old, married with two children
to vacate their two houses due to adjudication which was wrongfully implemented. The
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