Tag Archives: Country: Ethiopia

CNN.com: is top teeth came in before his bottom teeth. That is how elders of the Kara tribe determined that a healthy baby boy needed to be killed. The child was “mingi” — cursed, according to their ancient superstitions.

CNSNews: Since early March two Christians have reportedly been killed, more than 3,000 displaced and at least 69 churches destroyed.

Catholic Culture : “Muslim extremists have burned down 69 Protestant churches– 46 of them Pentecostal– in southwestern Ethiopia.”

The New American: “An attack by militant Muslims which has thus far destroyed at least a dozen churches may signal an expansion in anti-Christian violence in Ethiopia as the next front in the recent escalation of the Jihad’s war against Christianity.”

WorldNetDaily: “More than 50 churches, nearly 30 houses, a school and an orphanage along with other Christian-owned buildings have been destroyed by rampaging Muslims in Ethiopia’s Jamma region, according to reports from the Christian news service Compass Direct and others.”

VOANews.com: “Several US-based Christian websites say Muslim extremists burned dozens of churches near Jimma in western Oromia region over past several days.”

CNEWA: “Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has been navigating turbulent waters ever since the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In particular, these years have taken a heavy toll on traditional monasticism. Under Marxist Derg rule, which lasted until 1991, the government seized and redistributed church-owned land . . . Today, most of Ethiopia’s monasteries need financial support. Many are simply languishing.”

OneNewsNow: “25 Muslims recently burned down ten homes and left 80 Christians in Jimma homeless. Since then, they have been prevented from rebuilding their homes and are forced to live under trees. But Jonathan Racho, regional manager for Africa at International Christian Concern (ICC), tells OneNewsNow the episode gets more shocking than that.”

WorthyNews: “According to International Christian Concern (ICC), on September 13, the Muslim men forcefully took Muhammad Ali, a new Christian convert from Islam, to a mosque on suspicion that he had left Islam. They asked Ali to enter and pray at the mosque. When he refused, they stabbed him on the hip with a knife.”

The Christian Post: “Two Somali Muslim men attacked a well-known Somali church leader in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa over the weekend, according to a Washington-based Christian human rights group.”