Eritrean authorities detain Catholic bishop, but won’t say why
Eritrean authorities are continuing to detain Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim of Segheneity, who was arrested at the Asmara International Airport Oct. 15.
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by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News | 0 |
Eritrean authorities are continuing to detain Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim of Segheneity, who was arrested at the Asmara International Airport Oct. 15.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, child soldiers, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News | 0 |
Places of worship have become the latest target for the forced roundup of Eritrean teens to serve as soldiers, in what clerics describe as a deteriorating situation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Catholic Schools, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News | 0 |
An agricultural technical school in Eritrea is the latest to fall under government control, in a string of forced seizures of Catholic schools and hospitals.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Church in Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, human rights, lead, News, tigray | 0 |
A leading human rights groups says Eritrea is now committing “crimes against humanity.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, migrants and refugees, News, tigray, war crimes | 0 |
As Catholic officials in Tigray continue to call for meaningful peace talks and an end to atrocities and the humanitarian aid blockade, an international refugees organization is warning that Eritrean refugees in the northern region have nowhere to run.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coptic Catholic Church, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Papal appointments, Pope Francis | 0 |
An Eritrean priest serving Catholics from his homeland who lives in Southern California has been named by Pope Francis to lead an apostolic visitation throughout North America to assess the pastoral needs of the faith community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters | 0 |
Comboni Sister Tseghereda Yohannes said she was caught off guard when she was appointed secretary-general of the Eritrean bishops’ conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 14, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News | 0 |
Catholic bishops in Eritrea have expressed anger at the forced takeover of church-run institutions as the government moved to confiscate or close more schools.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Catholic Church, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Interviews, lead, News | 0 |
Eritrea is marking its 30th anniversary of independence this year, with human rights activists noting the country has little reason to celebrate, given the brutal oppression experienced under President Isaias Afwerki.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 28, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Oriental Orthodox | 0 |
Women who make it to the clinic for sex abuse survivors in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray usually struggle to describe their injuries. But when they can’t take a seat and quietly touch their bottoms, the nurses know it’s an unspeakable kind of suffering.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 13, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Anti-Christian persecution, Church in Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, lead, News | 0 |
Eritrea’s recent release of over 170 Christians since last summer doesn’t signal a turn towards religious freedom in the East African country, activists are warning.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 5, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jesuit Refugee Service, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
In the midst of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, thousands of Eritrean refugees who fled oppression and authoritarianism have been deported back to their home country, said an Eritrean Catholic priest.
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