Tag: Oromia

Ethiopia: Pressure on churches building; evangelical church told to vacate after ten years

June 18, 2019 Ethiopia Churches, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Oromia

A church in central Ethiopia. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

An evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting there, and churches elsewhere in the region say pressure is increasing on them, too. The Mekane Yesus Evangelical Church in the town of Robe in Bale zone, about 400km southeast of . . . Read More

Ethiopia: Ethnic Somali Christian police man forced to relocate after talking about his faith

February 7, 2019 Ethiopia Ethiopia, Human rights, IDPs, Oromia, Religious freedom, Somali Region

A Christian police officer in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region was advised to return to Islam but refused, claiming a constitutional right to religious freedom. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

An Ethiopian police officer was arrested, dismissed and forced to move to another part of the country after he told colleagues about his Christian faith The 25-year-old man, who grew up in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region as a member of the nearly 100 percent Muslim Somali tribe, became a Christian . . . Read More

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 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 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

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