A senior Sudanese Catholic priest and two foreign brothers on Friday
became the latest of around 100 Christian leaders to be expelled from
Sudan in the last few months.Fr Santino Morokomomo Maurino, general secretary of the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference, was forced to leave on 12 April, the same day as Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir visited South Sudan for the first time since the region became an independent state in 2011.
The priest's expulsion has called into question the announcement by Mr Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart, Salva Kiir, that relations between the two countries are to be normalised.
Also expelled with Fr Maurino were two Religious, French Br Michel Fleury and an Egyptian known only as Br Hossam, who were working at the Catholic Language Institute, Khartoum.