Dear Editor,

Sending foreign Catholic church missionaries to Eritrea to serve the same God that the Eritreans have been worshiping for centuries before the Catholic church came to being is an insult to Eritreans. Instead of relaying on the imperialistic power hungry manipulation of self serving false prophets and Messiahs of European and other foreign "missionaries" of the Catholic church, one only needs to refer to the "Erythrean (Eritrean) Sea" of the Old Testament of the Bible, to find out that Eritreans have been Christians before the Romans waged crusade to force the Europeans to convert them to Christianity, establishing the Catholic Church. In any case, while the Catholic church refuses to accept and approve Eritrean catholic missionaries to serve in foreign countries nor allowing Eritreans to serve their own humanitarian and religious missions in their own native territory based Eritrean Catholic churches, as the Vatican II convention upholds, the Romans controlled and monopolized Catholic church is hypocritically shedding self-serving crocodile tears for the "Gospel" and desperately seeking to hold on to long dead colonization and manipulation.

Dear Editor, As a Catholic and a former altar boy, raised strictly in a devoted Catholic family with convictions to uphold the covenant of the Catholic religion and Church rules and regulations, just like millions of Eritreans, I consider my self and many Eritreans being able and capable to carry on all Church missions and services in Eritrean native traditional format and formation, with out having to succumb to the approval seal of "foreign catholic missionaries". Therefore, I hereby request that the Catholic Church accept and respect the Eritrean people's free will, religious commitment and native missionary services, with out waging it's imperialistic manipulation and demeanoring political propaganda against Eritrea and the Eritrean people.

Sincerely, Thank you, Gerrie Lijam, San Jose, Ca. USA