Catholic Church In Sudan Torched By Several Hundred Muslims

AP reports that in Khartoum, Sudan today, a mob of several hundred Muslims set fire to a Catholic church that is attended by South Sudanese living in the north and by Ethiopian refugees. Fire engines were unable to extinguish the fire in the church, that is part of a complex that also houses a school and dormitories.  While the church is located on a disputed parcel of land, the attack apparently was triggered by the hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan over the oil town of Heglig on the disputed border between mostly Muslim Sudan and largely Christian and animist South Sudan which became an independent country last year.