Image: Mulugeta Ayene / AP
Abune Mathias, the sixth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, during the 2020 Good Friday service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in his country’s Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia’s federal government, saying he believes its actions constitute genocide: “They want to destroy the people of Tigray.”
The United States ambassador hosted him today to learn more.
In a video shot last month on a mobile phone and carried out of Ethiopia, the elderly Patriarch Abune Mathias addresses the church’s scores of millions of followers and the international community, saying his previous attempts to speak out were blocked. He is ethnic Tigrayan.
‘At least’ 78 priests ‘massacred’ in one zone of Tigray, leaked letter claims
The document, obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, claims a number of mass killings have taken place over the last five months
10 May 2021 • 4:45pm
Priests from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church lead the procession during a Sunday morning service in Tigray
Credit: Ben Curtis /AP
At least 78 priests were ‘massacred’ in one zone of Tigray, according to an official church letter leaked to the
Telegraph.
The letter, which was addressed to the Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, says that “priests, deacons, choristers, and monks” have been “massacred” over the last five months.
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FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, Abune Mathias, the 6th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, uses hand sanitizer, to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, during an Orthodox Good Friday service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the countryâs Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopiaâs actions, saying he believes it s genocide. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File) May 10, 2021 - 5:52 AM
NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States ambassador to Ethiopia on Monday hosted the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after he warned of âgenocideâ in the Tigray region in his first public comments on the war.
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