Sudan

Omer Ahmed al-Garay, director general of the National Centre for Curriculum and Educational Research (NCCER), has issued a new letter insisting that the government had not intentionally omitted Christianity from school subjects.

According to new reports, Christian education has yet again been omitted from primary school education.

At the end of evening prayers at a mosque in the Al-Jerif East area in Sudan, imams on called for residents to rid Christian South Sudanese from the “Muslim area."

Despite high hopes that Sudan's new transitional government would bring Christianity back as a school subject alongside Islam, it was revealed this week that the government chose to omit the study of Christianity from the curriculum.

Christian leaders in Sudan rejoiced last week when Sudan's new transitional government released a truck filled with Christian literature and good that was confiscated eight years ago from a Baptist church.

Sudan’s religious affairs ministry on Wednesday abolished committees imposed on churches under former President Omar al-Bashir.

Muslims in the disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan noticed that Ahmed Alnour was no longer reciting his Islamic prayers five times a day. Alnour had quietly become a Christian, but his faith was discovered and he was forced to quit his job and flee.

 New Sudanese Minister of Education Mohamed Al-Amin Al-Toam told church leaders in Khartoum this week that the government would consider excluding Christian holidays and Sundays in scheduling national exams.

Temporary church buildings were burned down in SE Sudan.