Ethiopian Muslims Burn Down Five Churches, More Attacks Feared
Ethiopian Evangelical Christian Churches Are Burnt by Muslims
Washington — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that in the past two days, thousands of Muslims have razed five churches and the homes of two evangelists in Asendabo, Ethiopia. Christian leaders are asking for protection after the Muslim attackers continued burning churches even after the federal police were sent to the town.
The Muslims started the attacks yesterday after falsely accusing the Christians of desecrating the Qur’an. More than ten thousand Muslims shouted “Allah Akbar” (Allah is great) as they burned down five evangelical churches. The government sent the federal police force to protect the Christians after the Muslims burned down the first three churches. The Muslims overwhelmed the police force and burned down two more churches today.
Speaking with ICC, Christian leaders expressed their fear that Muslims will start killing the Christians unless the government sends more security forces to contain the Muslim attackers.
At the time of the writing of this report, none of the Muslim attackers have been arrested. The government officials detained some Christians and took them to the nearby Jimma town stating that they need to do that for their own security.
Ethiopia is a Christian majority country and was one of the first nations to accept Christianity. However, in the areas of the country where Muslims are the majority, Christians face attacks.
“We urge Ethiopian government forces to send reinforcement to protect the Christians in the city of Asendabo from the Muslim attacks. We ask Christians around the world to prevent any further attacks by calling the Ethiopian officials in their countries and asking them to protect the Christians and their property,” said ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, Jonathan Racho.
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adama
March 4, 2011 at 9:48 pm
this is a big lie, nothing is happening in that area. both muslims and christiana are living together side by side. this is the worst fabricated news coming from who hates ethiopian peice.
bilal eth
March 5, 2011 at 8:05 am
Let us Report aslo when chritians burns.Before couple of months 10 mosques burnt one of which was in the capital.Weganent ayatqan…..Ye muslimoch guday sihon zimita, ye christianoch gudday sihon uuta
ኢትዮጵያ
March 5, 2011 at 12:53 pm
ኢትዮጵያ የክርስቲያን ሀገር ናት!
ሙስልሞች ይህንን ማመን እና መቀበል አለባቸው!
Intolerant religion
March 5, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Ethiopians are stupid people like Arabs. They believe God or Allah created every thing in five days. Can you imagine more stupid than this?
Ethiopia is the poorest country in the world. If God was there why are you suffering in famine and drought. Ethiopians are farming like primitive men using animals, no irrigation or technology except in some government or large organizations farms.
Stupid people fight for the God they or their ancestors never seen. If there is Islamic or Christian GOD of any sort, he would have take Ethiopia out of poverty.
Down with all religions!
God is created by Jewish people for Jewish people. Stop fighting and address your problems you primitive stupid Christians & Muslim of Ethiopia.
Intolerant religion
March 5, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I know stupid preachers of Christian & Muslim denominations can not read this email. Please can you tell them that God is the idea created by Jewish to unit their 12 tribes of Israelites. Nothing to do with Stupid Ethiopian Christians or Muslims.
If there was God as both Christians & Muslims claims, then “why your all mighty God” the world laughing stock? Ethiopia is the poorest country in the world. Does that mean your God left you to suffer for thousands of years. What pleasure is he getting for doing that?
Enjoy living with your friends & neighbors in happiness and work to eradicate poverty. No one Christian nor Muslim never proved the existence of so called all knowing God.
Please wake up and smell the coffee. Don’t fight like stupid moron!
Good luck
Gabittoooo!
Ethios el-shaday
March 5, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Ethiopia is 4 all, i do not surprise why dominant christian numbers love their fellow muslim ethiopians but there nowadays minority evangelical mov’ts developing hostility and hatredness to wards both orthos and muslims! This should better be aware of even in time of play off the others
WE
March 5, 2011 at 7:48 pm
HE REALLY DESECRATED THE QURAN IN ASENDABO JIMMA ZONE . AND HE MUST BE KILLED BY GOVERNMENT
WE
March 5, 2011 at 7:49 pm
ETHIOPIA IS NOT CHRISTIAN MAJORITY COUNTRY IN ALL REGION. THEY ONLY MAJORITY IN AMHARA, AND TIGRAY
romanwork
March 5, 2011 at 8:25 pm
islam man mad himanot naw crze christiana have esat to
Wollegan
March 6, 2011 at 8:59 am
Yo all r crzy ethiopia is muslim majority but politically christian majority,but nowadays all the life walks are dominated by muslims only military camps are excluded,muslims should be treated well if dev’t dreams to be realized,no muslims means no ethiopia,no muslims means no business and activities,no muslims even means no bread in ethiopia!
abdu
March 7, 2011 at 1:35 am
-ethiopia is with muslim majority and dominated by less in# christian
-this all stuppid things came from that stuppid Haile Sillasie
-the only important is respect each other &avoid some stuppid bliefers who believe Ethiopia as chiristian country.
mahfuz
March 7, 2011 at 7:49 am
mashallah we will see after few years every thing it will be change inshallah
may allah he will give usthe power nuserat (won) for crististianity lesson muslim he will become the king & this is the reason of coming (mahdi) before that inshallah the group alshabab they will destroy all unbelever like cristian,jewish…
so frands before this it will happen all of you convert to islam.
bokcha
March 7, 2011 at 5:18 pm
ይሄ ሁሉ ሲፉፀም ኢትዩጵያ ዐስተዳዳሪ ወይንም መንግስት ወይ የበላይ ሰሚ የለም ።ኢትዩጵያ አጠፈም ፉጣሪ እያላት
ሰላም
March 7, 2011 at 5:21 pm
ይሄ ሁሉ ሲፉፀም ኢትዩጵያ ዐስተዳዳሪ ወይንም መንግስት ወይ የበላይ ሰሚ የለም ።ኢትዩጵያ አጠፈም ፉጣሪ እያላት
እውነት
March 7, 2011 at 5:55 pm
ወንድሜ ፣ሰላም ፣እውነተ ብለሐል፣ እንመራለን ፣እናስተዳድራለን ፣ባዬቹ ፣የት አሉ ፦ይሄ ፣ድባቡ ፣ግን ፣ነገ ፣በሌላ ፣ኦርቶዶክስ ፣ሐይማኖት ፣ላይ ፣እንደሚደግሙት ፣ጥርጥር ፣የለውም ፣ይሄ ሙስሊም ፣ወንድማማቾች፣እያለ፣በዓሁኑ፣ሰዓት፣በዐለማችንላይ፣እየተቀጣጠለ፣ያለው ፣የሐይማኖት ፣ ጦርነት ፣ለማነሳት፣እና፣ዕየሩሣሌምን እስራኤልን፣የሙስልሙ ፣ሐይል ፣በአንድ ፣ተደራጅቶ ፣ለማጥቃት፣እንዲሁም ፣ክርስትናን ፣ለማጥፍት ፣የጅሐድ ፣ለማወጅ፣እየተደረገ ፣መሆኑን፣ማንኛውም፣የክርስትና፣እምነት ፣ተከታይ፣ልብ፣ሊለው፣ይገባል።ይሔ ፣ነገር ፣ለሁለተኛ ፣ግዜ ፣በዚሁ ፣ከተማ ፣ሲደገም፣ ነው።
ሰላም
March 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm
ኢትዩጵያ ፥ እጀችሽን ፣ወደ እግዛብሔር ፣ዘርጊ
adrian
March 8, 2011 at 1:44 am
Please for our sake stop the madness, religion was created by man to confuse the masses while politicians reap the benefit of this world. We all agree creation started in Africa but poeple lets stop the fighting. The rich are living in Heaven here on Earth let us get our share of this heaven on EARTH.
Temesgen
March 8, 2011 at 1:58 am
I advice the chiristians to defend themselves not to die like what was happening in the area before.
Jimma
March 8, 2011 at 8:24 am
you guys please be cool stop your stupidity we are all the same but religious d/c exists and we tolerate one another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Abu
March 8, 2011 at 10:46 am
Islam is not peace as muslims claim. Islam is arabization. Our ethiopian stupid muslims believe that they will kill and abuse the christians and be rewarded in jenna with 72 vergin girls. Oh, morons. allah is satan. That is why he orderd you to be violent.
bontu
March 10, 2011 at 7:34 am
what/? what /?too silly noon belivers u are the dirtist addunyaa tana iratti
outraged
March 10, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Alright… this has gone too far! It is time someone stepped in and bombed the (expletive deleted) out of these (expletive deleted) muslim morons once and for all… I say we go over there and nuke their (expletive deleted) back to the (expletive deleted) stone age!
Daniel
March 12, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Guys please go for peace. Don’r post a biased article. No religion teaches murder and cruelity. We Ethiopian are living in peace irrespective of religion. We have to fight the radicals the sake of the long lasted harmony betweem Muslims and Christians.
In the current chaos in asendabo I blame the protestant leader who desecrete the Muslim Holy Scripture/Qura’n. It is he who incite the chaos.
Generally the government must follow the actions of the protestants in Ethiopia. These days a new relion is not the need of Ethiopians. We need technology to overcome our problem. Why don’t the westerns send to us their technology instead of their abandoned religion.
Peace for all Ethiopians
Mohammed
April 28, 2011 at 9:05 pm
@mahfuz i was surprised that a stupid dog like you can write.There is no great religion in this world all are opium of the society.I am not sure you understand this because you must be one of the idiot which those gay Arabs sent to Ethiopia.