Tag: Addis Ababa

Ethiopian PM sends condolences to Orthodox Church after 15 priests killed

August 14, 2018 Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, Addis Ababa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Jijiga, Oromia, Somali Region, Tigray

Ethiopia’s prime minister visited the leader of the country’s Orthodox Church on Saturday to express his condolences after 15 priests were killed and ten Orthodox churches damaged in the eastern Somali region last week. Among the priests killed were Rev. Kidane Mariam Nibretu, Rev. Yared Hibu, Father Gebiremariam Asfaw, and . . . Read More

Ethiopian Christians arrested for ‘praying against government’

January 10, 2018 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Chagni, Churches, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, House churches, Pentecostals, Tigray

Christians worship during a church service in a town in central Ethiopia. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2016)

Seven Ethiopian Christians have been arrested and detained in the north-western town of Chagni on suspicion of praying against the government. A local source told World Watch Monitor the seven men, members of the Meserete Kiristos church, were followed and overheard by a local militia group when they went up a . . . Read More

Lake Chad Basin crisis to dominate African Union Summit

June 27, 2017 Addis Ababa, African Union, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Lake Chad, Maiduguri, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria

As the 29th African Union (AU) Summit begins today (27 June), one of the major talking points will be the “now-major conflict zone” of the Lake Chad Basin, writes Omar S Mahmood, analyst at The Institute for Security Studies. The UN has described the situation in north-eastern Nigeria – one . . . Read More

Ethiopians don’t have to pay for church they didn’t destroy

May 3, 2017 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Amhara, Bahir Dar, Ethiopian Orthodox Church

UPDATE [3 May 2017] – Three Ethiopians do not now have to pay compensation for a church which, in January, they were acquitted of charges of destroying. Tibebu Mekuria, Dawit Jemberu, and Belete Tilahun were freed on 18 January after a Supreme Court judge acquitted them on 13 January. The three had . . . Read More

UPDATE: Ethiopian girls in prison for a book ‘countering attacks on Christianity’

November 16, 2016 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Babile, Ethiopia, Harar

Three teenage Christian girls yesterday (15 Nov.) appeared in court in Babile, some 550km east of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, charged with inciting religious violence. The girls, whose names were given as Eden, 15, Gifti, 14, and Mihiret, 14 – together with an older girl, named Deborah – were . . . Read More

Ethiopian village church attacked

October 13, 2015 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Oromia, Proselytism

A boy stands outside the church in Guder.Courtesy Open Doors International A church in a village 130km west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, has been attacked three times recently by suspected animists angered over their evangelism efforts. On 30 August, a mob killed one Christian and injured around . . . Read More

Ethiopian Christians cleared of holding ‘illegal meetings’

September 8, 2015 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Baptism

An Orthodox church cut out of the rock in the town of Lalibela. North Ethiopia was one of the first Christian nations in the world – from the 4th Century.Courtesy Open Doors International UPDATE: On 26 Aug, four months after their initial arrest, a judge dismissed all charges against . . . Read More

Ethiopian Orthodox leaders jailed after protesting about persecution

August 25, 2015 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Churches, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Oromia, Protestants, Silte

A district court in Ethiopia has charged six members of an Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) with inciting public disturbance, destroying public trust in government officials and spreading hatred after it surfaced in the media that official complaints were made to the government about increasing persecution of Christians in a Muslim-dominated area in . . . Read More

A convert’s story

July 31, 2015 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, African Union, Apostasy, Converts, East Africa

U.S. President Barack Obama visited Kenya and Ethiopia 24-28 July, partly to discuss regional security. In Kenya especially, Christians have been targeted by the violent al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab. In the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on 28 July, making an American president’s first speech to the African Union, Obama said . . . Read More

Obama visit puts Ethiopia’s record in spotlight

July 28, 2015 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, African Union, Amhara, Bahir Dar, Barack Obama, Churches, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Human rights, Mahibere Kidusan, Pentecostals, Protestants

n Ethiopians walk past a poster of US President Barack Obama in Addis Ababa on 27 July. gettyimages.com U.S. President Barak Obama is visiting Ethiopia on 27 and 28 July, providing an opportunity for America to prod its ally on its human-rights record, which gets low marks from world capitals. . . . Read More

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