{"id":15461,"date":"2023-07-03T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=15461"},"modified":"2023-07-03T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:40:00","slug":"muslim-refugees-request-land-for-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/muslim-refugees-request-land-for-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim refugees request land for Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n<p><b>Sudanese refugees resettled in Wadwil, Aweil West County of Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, have requested local authorities for a space to erect a mosque in the area.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The appeal comes after the visit of the secretary for the Muslim community, Mr. Ibrahim Deng Akok.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Saturday that the Muslim refugees have asked him to extend their wish to have the mosque at Wadwil to the host community.<\/p>\n<p>Akok said the refugees have also appealed for the need to have a special school for their children known as &#8220;Khalowa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have sheiks in the camp, and what they asked me is that they need a school for children, known as Khalowa, and a mosque,&#8221; Deng said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have Muhammod as a sheik and other guys who can render them the Quran while in the camp,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the members of the host community have accepted to offer the refugees a plot of land as they are still living in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community members have accepted to render them a plot as I consulted the representatives of the host community leaders,&#8221; Deng said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the host community said that they don\u2019t have any significant problems with the refugees, as they have not heard anything bad from them.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary General of the Muslim community stated that the refugees expressed their happiness during the Eid al-Adha public holiday when he visited them.<\/p>\n<p>The refugees were glad for the visit of Deng, who went all the way from Aweil to the camp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hou Akot Hou Sudanese refugees resettled in Wadwil, Aweil West County of Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, have requested local authorities for a space to erect a mosque in the area. The appeal comes after the visit of the secretary for the Muslim community, Mr. Ibrahim Deng Akok. He<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/muslim-refugees-request-land-for-mosque\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Faithful-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15464,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions\/15464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}