Shabait.com (Asmara)
24 December 2008
His Holiness Abune Dioskoros, Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, is currently conducting a spiritual visit abroad. Eritrea is geographically placed at the center of a region which is the origin of the major faiths in the world. Consequently the Eritrean people are among the first to accept and follow the Christian and Islamic faiths. In different parts of the world, new religions ...
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For years, My cousin and his best friend fought hard and dedicated their lives to free Eritrea from Ethiopian colonization. My cousin's friend died during the war of liberation so he did not see an independent Eritrea. But my cousin today says his friend is lucky to die before Eritrea became independent because both of them are evangelical christians. He thinks his friend would have been ashamed to have fought for what eritrea has sadly become. Thankfully, my cousin has escaped and now lives in America but many thousand evangelical eritreans are still stuck inside the country, most in jail (some probably dead).. Thank you Mr. Isaias Afwerki, our "hero."