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Mass graves spotted near 2 Ethiopian churches after massacre
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Thousands of refugees missing in Tigray PA
An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray, Ethiopia holds her refugee registration document as she waits to receive relief aid at a camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala State, Sudan, in December
An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray, Ethiopia holds her refugee registration document as she waits to receive relief aid at a c.
AS MANY as 20,000 refugees have gone missing in the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, the head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, has said. Many are feared to have been forcibly returned to Eritrea by the Eritrean troops from whom they had fled; others might have fled to areas beyond the reach of any assistance.
Ark of the Covenant for the Tabernacle replica at BYU in this photo from October 16, 2017. | (Wikimedia Commons)
Around 750 people were killed in an attack on an Orthodox church, which is said to contain the Ark of the Covenant described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in northern Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region home to thousands of churches and monasteries according to reports.
Hundreds of people hiding in Maryam Tsiyon Church in Aksum amid an armed conflict were brought out and shot to death, and local residents believe the aim was to take the Ark of Covenant to Addis Ababa, the Belgium-based nonprofit European External Programme with Africa reported in this month’s situational report, released on Jan. 9.
Churches and mosques in Tigray vandalised and looted in Ethiopian purge
Some manuscripts dating to the 13th century may have been stolen and burned in cultural cleansing
Experts say Ethiopia s Christian heritage is being extinguished
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Churches and mosques in Ethiopia are being attacked and their sacred treasures looted in a catastrophic conflict in the northern Tigray region that is causing destruction, loss of life and a surge of refugees to Sudan, according to international experts.
They are warning of historical vandalism and cultural cleansing , fearing that religious sites have not been exempt from shelling and that a nation is being robbed of its ancient religious heritage, to the distress of Ethiopians of all faiths.
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