Eritrea: Religious Leaders Inform Congressman Donald Payne That Eritrea is a Country Where All Religions Coexist in Harmony

5 January 2008

Asmara — Eritrean religious leaders informed the visiting Mr. Donald Payne, Member of the House of Representatives in the US Congress, that Eritrea is a country where all where all religions coexist in harmony.

In a meeting with the US Congressman, the Eritrean Mufti, Sheik Al-Amin Osman, explained that Eritrea is a nation in which the Islamic and Christian faiths have been and are still coexisting in harmony for ages. Indicating that colonialists had left no stone unturned to divide the Eritrean people along religious lines right from the ancient times, Sheik Al-Amin stated that such futile attempts ended in utter failure thanks to the Eritrean people's firm unity.

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