The World - News from April 24, 1989

Islamic militants in Sudan attacked a Roman Catholic center for the destitute and dying, injuring a nun and three other people, a Khartoum newspaper reported. The newspaper Sudani said the Muslims left a mosque Friday after a clergyman criticized the presence of the church-run relief center and attacked the hospice in Omdurman, twin city of Khartoum. It said the militants reacted after the government refused to impose strict Islamic sharia law on the country. The next day, the paper said, a group of Christians retaliated with an arson attack against mosque.