KHARTOUM, Sudan — Members of the Khartoum, Sudan, state parliament have rejected an order by the minister of education stating all Christian schools in the capital to open on a Sunday, reported World Watch Monitor.
Minister of Education Farah Mustafa issued a statement in late July requesting that Christian-run schools treat Sundays as a work day, as the rest of the country does. Churches stood against the order, saying the decision was a form of discrimination against Christians.
Mohammed Hashim, deputy speaker of the Khartoum state assembly, asked Mustafa to revoke the order in early August for the sake of “peaceful coexistence,” adding that the Christian schools’ schedule of taking the Sabbath for rest didn’t seem to hinder academic performance, according to World Watch Monitor.
The day after parliament sided with Hashim and rejected Mustafa’s order, the Sudanese government demolished The Baptist Church in Omdurman. The church was 1 of 27 designated for destruction in 2016 on claims that they were in violation of the designated purposes of the land they were built on, sources reported. (TAB)
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