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- Friday 1 February 2013
January 31, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the Al-Wasat Islamic party, Youssef al-Koda, on Thursday joined the controversial New Dawn charter signed earlier this month in Uganda by Sudanese opposition parties and rebel groups battling (...)
- Monday 11 February 2013
February 11, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s vice-president, Riek Machar, has called on the religious institutions in the 19-month-old country to promote education in their respective organisations.
He also reiterated his government’s (...)
- Sunday 22 April 2012
April 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – An Islamic fundamentalist group in Sudan made an attempt to bring down a church in the capital Khartoum and eventually managed to set it on fire. A Bishop stands in front of the altar during Easter Sunday (...)
- Sunday 11 November 2012
November 10, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - A US religious freedom group has called on Ethiopian authorities to stop what it said was an emerging religious freedom violations against Muslim minorities in the Horn of Africa.
The US Commission on (...)
- Wednesday 6 February 2013
February 5, 2013 (JUBA) - The church in South Sudan has called on the government to review the current policy and constitutional provision which stipulates the separation of the state from religion and introduce a better new approach. (...)
- Friday 8 February 2013
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, has cautioned against Islamist movements saying they represent a threat to African diversity and called for the (...)
- Monday 23 April 2012
April 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A pastor in the Sudanese capital Khartoum confirmed that a group of Islamic fundamentalists attacked his church over the weekend and set it on fire. FILE - A man prays during Easter Sunday service at (...)
- Saturday 25 February 2012
February 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Sudan’s mainstream Islamic Salafi faction, Ansar al-Suna, has accused the government of waging an increasingly hostile campaign against their creed under the influence of rival religious (...)
- Friday 22 February 2013
February 20, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian authorities have banned three civic organisations, accusing the NGOs of engaging in activities that break 2009’s Charities and Societies Proclamation law.
The Ethiopian government alleged (...)
- Thursday 21 March 2013
ST ANTONY’S COLLEGE 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF, UK
The Sudanese Programme
Conference on
“The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and the Two Sudans”
Friday 7th June and Saturday 8th June 2013
The (...)
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