The Catholic Church in Sudan is mourning the death of Fr. Youhanna Al-Amin, a priest who remained with his people amid growing violence in the Nuba Mountains and was reportedly killed after reporting the theft of medicines intended for the local population.
Fr. Youhanna, Parish Priest of St. Vincent’s Kauda Parish of Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of El Obeid was killed on Friday, June 19, together with a parish watchman and another person in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, a region long affected by conflict and instability.
According to a Saturday, June 20 report by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) quoting local sources, the late Fr. Youhanna was killed amid escalating tribal tensions and disputes among armed factions operating in the area.
The same sources said the killing appears to have been an act of retaliation after Fr. Youhanna reported the theft of medicines that the Church was safeguarding for the benefit of residents.
Kauda serves as the main center of the areas of the Nuba Mountains controlled by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N).
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