LOS ANGELES, July 27 (CDN) — Another Christian imprisoned for his faith in Eritrea has died from authorities denying him medical treatment, according to a Christian support organization. Sources told Netherlands-based Open Doors that Yemane Kahasay Andom, 43, died ....
July 27 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, July 27 (Compass Direct News) – Another Christian imprisoned for his faith in Eritrea has died from authorities denying him medical treatment, according to a Christian support organization. Sources told Netherlands-based Open Doors that ....
LOS ANGELES, January 21 (CDN) — Three Christians incarcerated in military prisons for their faith have died in the past four months in Eritrea, including the death on Friday (Jan. 16) of a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement, according to a Christian support organization. ....
January 21 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, January 21 (Compass Direct News) – Three Christians incarcerated in military prisons for their faith have died in the past four months in Eritrea, including the death on Friday (Jan. 16) of a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement, ....
September 24 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, September 24 (Compass Direct News) – An evangelist imprisoned since 2006 for his Christian activities is receiving especially harsh treatment because of his ministry to inmates. Sources said Teame Weldegebriel is on the brink of despair ....
August 11 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, August 11 (Compass Direct News) – Authorities on Tuesday (August 5) locked up eight high school students at a military training school in metal shipping containers for objecting to the burning of hundreds of Bibles, sources told ....
July 23 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Compass Direct News) – Imprisoned and tortured for her Christian faith since December, 37-year-old Azib Simon died of malaria in Eritrea’s Wi’a Military Training Center last week. Weakened by ongoing torture, sources said, ....
June 2 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, June 2 (Compass Direct News) – Eritrean security police cracked down on more Christians again last week, arresting 34 evangelicals gathered for prayer and fellowship in a local home in Keren. The police raid on Wednesday (May 28) ....
May 27 (CDN) — Haile Naizghi, Dr. Kifle Gebremeskel and Tesfatsion Hagos LOS ANGELES, May 27 (Compass Direct News) – Unconfirmed reports emerged this month in the Eritrean capital of Asmara, indicating that the repressive regime plans to press formal charges ....
February 21 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, February 21 (Compass Direct News) – Security police authorities in Eritrea released 35 evangelical Christians in the port city of Massawa over the weekend after holding them in custody for six weeks at a local police station. All the ....
September 7 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, September 7 (Compass Direct News) – Eritrean authorities tortured a woman to death on Wednesday (September 5) for refusing to recant her Christian faith, the fourth such killing in less than a year, according to a Christian support ....
August 23 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, August 23 (Compass Direct News) – Christians in Eritrea confirmed yesterday that a Protestant pastor in Asmara who disappeared 11 days ago remains missing. Pastor Leule Gebreab of Asmara’s Apostolic Church failed to return home to his ....
May 4 (CDN) — Mehrete Yesus Evangelical Presbyterian Church (2003)LOS ANGELES, May 4 (Compass Direct News) – In still another police raid in the Eritrean capital, local authorities last weekend arrested 80 members of the Mehrete Yesus Evangelical Presbyterian ....
February 22 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, February 22 (Compass Direct News) – An Eritrean Christian died in prison last week, four and a half years after the Eritrean regime jailed him for worshipping in a banned Protestant church. From the southern port city of Assab, local ....
February 15 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, February 15 (Compass Direct News) – Just days after Eritrean security police arrested one of the founders of the Full Gospel Church last month, two Protestant pastors and another church leader jailed months ago have been released on ....
January 23 (CDN) — LOS ANGELES, January 23 (Compass Direct News) – Police and military authorities in the East African nation of Eritrea jailed 68 more Christians in three official round-up operations conducted the first week of January. The new arrests of both ....
December 14 (CDN) — Eritrean Orthodox Church headquartersDecember 14 (Compass Direct News) – The government of Eritrea wrested financial and personnel control away from the Eritrean Orthodox Church last week, the day after security police jailed nine staff of a ....
October 30 (CDN) — October 30 (Compass Direct News) – In a large-scale roundup the past week, Eritrean authorities have detained 150 Christians from at least five of the country’s outlawed churches. Starting at 6 a.m. last Wednesday (October 25), security officers in ....
October 18 (CDN) — October 18 (Compass Direct News) – Eritrean security police tortured two Christians to death yesterday, two days after arresting them for holding a religious service in a private home south of Asmara. The deaths came just after officials detained a ....
September 20 (CDN) — September 20 (Compass Direct News) – The Eritrean government demanded this month that the Kale Hiwot Church surrender all its property and physical assets to the government. The written confiscation order targets possessions of the Protestant ....
September 8 (CDN) — September 8 (Compass Direct News) – Newly compiled statistics smuggled out of Eritrea indicate that at least 1,918 Eritrean citizens are imprisoned and being subjected to torture and forced labor because of their religious beliefs. According to a ....
May 19 (CDN) — May 19 (Compass Direct) – Two days after an evangelical Christian mother was arrested from her home and jailed by Eritrean police, her 6-month-old son has died on his sickbed in Nefasit, 10 miles east of Asmara. Ghenet Gebremariam was arrested on ....
May 19 (CDN) — Medhane Alem headquartersMay 19 (Compass Direct) – The Eritrean government jailed three more leaders of the Orthodox Church’s Medhane Alem renewal movement last month, cracking down on widespread reaction to the formal excommunication of 65 of the ....
April 19 (CDN) — Grand Mosque in AsmaraApril 19 (Compass Direct) – Besides the jailing of another Protestant pastor in February, authorities have also jailed 70 Muslims over the past two years for opposing the government appointment of the chief mufti. The detention ....
February 2 (CDN) — February 2 (Compass) – Eritrean military authorities jailed 75 Protestant Christians yesterday at the Sawa Military Training Camp for “reading Bibles and praying during their free time,” local sources in the small East Africa nation confirmed. Most ....
January 18 (CDN) — Patriarch Abune Antonios January 18 (Compass) – The government-controlled Holy Synod of the Eritrean Orthodox Church last week served formal notice to Abune Antonios that he is no longer the patriarchal head of the nation’s largest religious body. ....
January 4 (CDN) — January 4 (Compass) – At least 40 pastors, elders and leading laymen from five of Eritrea’s banned Protestant churches have been arrested from their homes or offices in the past two weeks in the capital of Asmara. Starting early on the morning of ....
November 9 (CDN) — November 9 (Compass) – Nearly 10 months after Pastor Oqbamichael Tekle-Haimonot was arrested at a wedding in western Eritrea, authorities at the Sawa military training center have released the ailing evangelical leader on bail. A minister in the ....
November 3 (CDN) — November 3 (Compass) – The number of Eritrean Christians confirmed to be jailed for their religious beliefs has shot up to a total of 1,778, nearly double the documented count six months ago. Although most of the prisoners are members of the ....
October 26 (CDN) — Rev. Nelson Fernandez and familyOctober 26 (Compass) – The only Anglican priest in the East African nation of Eritrea received abrupt orders in early October to leave the country. After pastoring St. George’s Episcopal Church in Asmara for the past ....
September 7 (CDN) — September 7 (Compass) -- Eritrean police arrested a bridal couple from the banned Hallelujah Church along with their 18 wedding guests on Sunday night, dragging them to jail because they are “Pentes” (Pentecostals), authorities said. The seven women ....
August 23 (CDN) — Patriarch Abuna AntoniosAugust 23 (Compass) -- Abuna Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church has been stripped of his patriarchal authority by a congress of the Holy Synod convened on August 7. According to a letter smuggled out of the repressive ....
August 23 (CDN) — A Few of the Jailed Eritrean Pastors. August 23 (Compass) -- Three months after 250 wedding guests were arrested in the Eritrean capital for attending a Protestant Christian wedding, 129 of them remain jailed under severe conditions. Initially 70 of ....
June 3 (CDN) — June 3 (Compass) — Police raided a large wedding ceremony in the Eritrean capital last weekend, arresting at least 250 guests present, including the bride and groom and their wedding party.The marriage ceremony of Benyam Gezae and his bride, both ....
May 17 (CDN) — May 17 (Compass) -- A Protestant pastor arrested four months ago for participating in a church wedding has broken under severe mistreatment at Eritrea’s military training center in Sawa this past week, falling seriously ill and suffering a mental ....
April 20 (CDN) — April 20 (Compass) -- Currently 16 full-time pastors are among nearly 900 Eritrean Christians known to be jailed in local prisons, military confinement camps and shipping containers for daring to meet secretly for prayer and worship outside ....
April 1 (CDN) — April 1 (Compass) — Another spate of raids against evangelical Christians during March has been confirmed from Eritrea, where in the latest government crackdown, a private printing press in Asmara was shut down and sealed last week for publishing ....
March 22 (CDN) — March 22 (Compass) -- A leading evangelical pastor disappeared off the streets of Asmara four days ago, presumably detained by Eritrean security forces and jailed at some unknown location. Kidane Weldou, a senior pastor of the Full Gospel Church in ....
March 18 (CDN) — March 18 (Compass) -- Last Sunday evening, Eritrean security police arrested 16 Protestants for watching a Christian video together in a church member’s home in the town of Adi-Kibe. Although the group of evangelical Christians gathered on March 13 ....
February 23 (CDN) — February 23 (Compass) -- A group of Sunday School teachers and their students were arrested last weekend in the Eritrean capital of Asmara while holding classes in their church compound. The 27 Christians, all members of the Medhane Alem Orthodox ....
February 23 (CDN) — Medhane Alem Orthodox Church headquartersFebruary 23 (Compass) — A group of Sunday School teachers and their students were arrested last weekend in the Eritrean capital of Asmara while holding classes in their church compound. The 27 Christians, all ....
February 16 (CDN) — February 16 (Compass) -- Another 31 Eritrean Christians have been jailed by police in towns north of the capital Asmara over the past 10 days. The latest police sweeps brings the total to 187 arrests for “illegal” Christian activities in Eritrea ....
January 14 (CDN) — January 14 (Compass) -- Eritrean authorities extended their crackdown on organized religion this past week to Roman Catholic citizens, arresting and jailing 25 members of the Catholic Church during a wedding rehearsal in Asmara.The victimized ....
January 5 (CDN) — The Faith Church in Massawa has been closedJanuary 5 (Compass) — Sixty members of the Rema Charismatic Church in the Eritrean capital of Asmara have been arrested and jailed for holding a New Year’s Eve celebration in the home of one of their church ....
September 15 (CDN) — September 15 (Compass) — Eritrean security police pounced on five evangelical Christians holding a prayer meeting in their church office in Asmara last week and arrested them. The five members of the newly formed New Covenant Church were taken into ....
August 25 (CDN) — August 25 (Compass) — Relatives of three Eritrean pastors jailed since May discovered yesterday that the prominent evangelicals have been transferred from their police station cells in the capital of Asmara to an unknown location. When families and ....
August 25 (CDN) — Dr. Gebremeske and Rev. NaizgiAugust 25 (Compass) — Relatives and friends of three Eritrean pastors jailed since May discovered yesterday that the prominent evangelicals have been transferred from their police station cells in the capital of Asmara ....
July 30 (CDN) — July 30 (Compass) — Police disrupted a Christian marriage ceremony in the Eritrean town of Senafe on Sunday, July 25, and arrested 30 guests and members of the wedding party. Charging in and demanding a halt to the ceremony, police officers ordered ....
July 28 (CDN) — July 28 (Compass) — Nine weeks after Eritrean police arrested three prominent Protestant pastors, the Asmara government continues to detain them and refuses families and church members any direct access to the prisoners. The Rev. Haile Naizgi and ....
June 4 (CDN) — June 4 (Compass) -- Eritrean police have jailed three prominent pastors and a popular Christian singer over the past three weeks, escalating a two-year government crackdown against the country’s evangelical Christians. Haile Naizgi, chairman of the ....
April 1 (CDN) — April 1 (Compass) — Police in the Eritrean capital of Asmara launched an investigation on March 20 into the activities of an Orthodox group of young adults known as Medhane Alem. Their Sunday afternoon meeting place was sealed, and the lay leader of ....
March 23 (CDN) — March 23 (Compass) — Eritrean authorities began raiding the private homes of evangelical Christians last week, arresting and jailing entire families caught praying and reading the Bible together. In two separate arrests on March 17 and March 18, ....
February 23 (CDN) — February 23 (Compass) — Police hauled to prison a group of 51 Protestant Christians worshiping in secret in the Eritrean capital of Asmara on Sunday, February 15. Pastor Mengse Tweldemedhane of the Hallelujah Church was arrested along with his ....
January 30 (CDN) — January 30 (Compass) — Eritrea’s outlawed Protestants confirmed this week that their neighbors are being hired to report to security agents any gatherings of evangelical believers in their communities. Police “spies” are rewarded with special ....
December 15 (CDN) — (Compass) — Eritrean police arrested and jailed another Protestant evangelical pastor on November 23 in the town of Mendefera, taking him and seven of his church members off to prison. “The police are treating them like criminals,” local sources ....
November 14 (CDN) — (Compass) — Government authorities in the Eritrean capital of Asmara have confiscated and sealed the complex of the Full Gospel Church, ordering the church staff and members to evacuate the building permanently on October 15. Located in the Gaza ....
October 10 (CDN) — (Compass) -- Police in the Eritrean capital of Asmara continued the country-wide crackdown, arresting another 12 evangelical Christians on September 7 while they were meeting in a private house for worship. Nearly all those arrested were described ....
September 12 (CDN) — (Compass) — Fifty-seven teenage Eritrean Christians jailed under severe punishment for having Bibles at the Sawa Military Training Camp remain locked in metal shipping containers. Sources say the children endure extreme temperatures, total darkness ....
September 12 (CDN) — (Compass) — A week after he was deported from Saudi Arabia, Eritrean Christian Girmaye Ambaye confirmed that he had been banned from returning to the Muslim kingdom for the next five years. Ambaye, 42, had been jailed in Jeddah since March, when he ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) — More arrests along with forced conscriptions targeting Eritrea’s independent Protestant Christians have been reported during the last two weeks of April, despite a blanket denial by Asmara officials on May 1 that any religious ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) — Eritrean security police arrested two full-time evangelists and another 54 members of the Rema Church on May 7 in Asmara, hauling them off to a local police station for holding “illegal prayer meetings” in two homes of their members. The ....
April 14 (CDN) — (Compass) — A total of 170 Protestant Christians have been jailed, beaten and threatened with death by Eritrean security forces in a harsh crackdown during February and March. In five separate incidents, police barged into worship services and a ....
June 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - The Eritrea government recently closed all Christian churches in the country other than the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Mekane Yesus (Lutheran) denominations, SIM reported. SIM, an evangelical Protestant organization, said it received ....
