NAIROBI, Kenya, April 21 (CDN) — A Christian near Ethiopia’s southern town of Moyale said suspected Islamic extremists on March 29 burned down his two thatched-grass homes. Evangelist Wako Hanake of the Mekane Yesus Church told Compass he had been receiving anonymous messages ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 7 (CDN) — At least one Christian was killed and others injured when thousands of Islamic extremists set fire to 59 churches and at least 28 homes in western Ethiopia in the past five days, Christian leaders said. More than 4,000 Christians in and around ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 29 (CDN) — A Christian in Ethiopia’s southern town of Moyale who languished in jail for more than three months after he was accused of desecrating the Quran has been sentenced to three years of prison, church leaders said. Tamirat Woldegorgis, a ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 7 (CDN) — A Christian in Ethiopia’s southern town of Moyale has been languishing in jail for two months after his Muslim business partner accused him of writing “Jesus is Lord” in a copy of the Quran, local church leaders said. Tamirat Woldegorgis, a member ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 15 (CDN) — Evangelical Christians in an area of Ethiopia unaccustomed to anti-Christian hostility have come under attack from Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) members threatened by their existence, Christian leaders said. In Olenkomi, about 65 ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 18 (CDN) — Prosecutors and police are trying to concoct a terrorism case against an Ethiopian convert from Islam who has been jailed since May without formal charges, Christian leaders said. Bashir Musa Ahmed, a 39-year-old Ethiopian national, was ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 28 (CDN) — The latest in a series of false charges against two Ethiopian evangelists was put to rest on Friday (Oct. 23), and they were released. A court in Debiretabor, Ethiopia acquitted the two evangelists of insulting the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 8 (CDN) — Two Christians in Ethiopia who had been sentenced to six months of prison on false charges of offering money to people to convert have successfully appealed their sentence, only to be kept in prison on a new charge. After a lower court in ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 25 (CDN) — An Ethiopian court on Monday (Sept. 21) threw out an appeal by two evangelists said to be falsely accused of offering money and gifts to people to convert to Christianity, thus upholding their six-month prison sentences.Temesgen Alemayehu and Tigist ....
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, September 15 (CDN) — A convert from Islam who has led a push for Muslim-Christian understanding in Ethiopia has been in jail for nearly four months since his arrest for “malicious” distribution of Bibles. Christian sources in Ethiopia said that, contrary to ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 27 (CDN) — A young Christian convert in Ethiopia mourning the sudden death of her baby boy was shocked to learn his body had been dug up and placed at the doorstep of a church leader earlier this month. Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) ....
May 27 (CDN) — NAIROBI, Kenya, May 27 (Compass Direct News) – A young Christian convert in Ethiopia mourning the sudden death of her baby boy was shocked to learn his body had been dug up and placed at the doorstep of a church leader earlier this month. Members of ....
June 13 (CDN) — ISTANBUL, June 13 (Compass Direct News) – In a snap ruling that surprised local Christians, an Ethiopian court has sentenced three Muslim men to life imprisonment for a deadly machete attack on two churches last March. At the initial hearing on ....
April 1 (CDN) — Injured Christian (photo: Open Doors)ISTANBUL, April 1 (Compass Direct News) – Ethiopian judicial authorities have released a prominent local official accused of instigating deadly church assaults that left one Christian dead and 17 wounded last ....
March 13 (CDN) — ISTANBUL, March 13 (Compass Direct News) – Eight Muslims wielding razor-sharp machetes and knives broke into two village churches in southern Ethiopia earlier this month and began wounding worshipers, instantly killing one Christian. Tulu Mosisa of ....
May 19 (CDN) — (Compass) — Two evangelical church elders jailed for 10 months as murder “suspects” in northern Ethiopia have been fully exonerated by the judge’s written court ruling. Judge Abraha Mengistu of the Bureau of Justice stated that the police ....
March 14 (CDN) — (Compass) -- Evangelical church leaders Kiros Meles and Abebayeh Desalegn walked free on March 7 after being jailed without charges for 10 months in the northern Ethiopian town of Maychew. “It is a shame for them to be in prison,” said the ....
December 14 (CDN) — (Compass) — Two evangelical Christians jailed in northern Ethiopia more than eight months ago remain under police detention without charges. Under apparent pressure, the presiding judge has given local police an ultimatum to produce solid evidence ....
September 13 (CDN) — (Compass) -- Two evangelical church leaders are in their fifth month of prison detention in Maychew after violent riots broke out against their churches. Kiros Meles, 46, and Abebayeh Desalegn, 35, were both jailed after an Orthodox church member ....
August 9 (CDN) — (Compass) — A mob led by priests of the Orthodox Church attacked and killed an evangelical Christian pastor in his home in Merawi, in northwestern Ethiopia. Brother Dantew, a teacher by profession and the leading elder in the Full Gospel Church, was ....
May 13 (CDN) — (Compass) - A Muslim mob attacked an indigenous Protestant church in the eastern Ethiopian town of Asaita in early March. The attackers reportedly shouted slogans against the United States and other Western countries. Police arrived in time to save ....
December 14 (CDN) — (Compass) - \"We may have freedom on paper, but I can say that persecution has doubled and it is coming from the Orthodox Church and the Muslims,\" a Protestant church leader told Compass. Over the last three years, there have been reports of ....
