SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Three churches torched twice in Sudan’s Blue Nile state

20/1/2020: Multiple sources – Three churches torched twice in Sudan’s Blue Nile state

• Radio Dabanga

• Sudan Tribune

Three churches in Bout, Blue Nile state, were set on fire twice in the past four weeks, the Sudanese Human Rights and Democracy Organisation (HUDO) reported in an Urgent Appeal.

On December 28 2019,, unknown persons simultaneously torched church buildings belonging to "the Sudan Internal Church, the Catholic Church, and the Orthodox Church" in the Bout.  The incidents were reported to the police, who did not move to investigate the case or put preventive measures, HUDO says.

After church members rebuilt the three churches, the churches were torched again on January 16 2020.  Again, the case was reported to the police, and again, no further steps were taken.

HUDO expresses its concerns about the violations of “the rights of the worshipers” and calls upon the Sudanese government “to take urgent action to safeguard the constitutional rights of the affected citizens”.