A GERMAN evangelist had to leave Sudan after police used tear gas and canes to break up an Easter prayer gathering he was to have led at a public square in Khartoum, church officials said on Wednesday. The police clashed on Tuesday with the worshippers, injuring some and detaining 40, after organisers of the service defied government orders to move the prayers to a suburb of the capital, officials said. Visiting evangelist Reinhard Bonnke took a flight back to Germany on Tuesday night after the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) advised him to leave, SCC secretary general Enock Tombe Stethen said. – AFP