Eritrea News News Eritrea » Religion: Religious freedom watchdog seeks Eritrea’s release of 80-year-old Jehovah’s Witness
(RNS) — Religious liberty and human rights experts, including a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, are calling for the release of an 80-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who ...
News Eritrea » Religion: Eritrean Patriarch Abune Antonios Dies After 16 Years in Detention
Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on February 9 at the age of 94. He was still serving detention ...
News Eritrea » Religion: Eritrea has imprisoned 7 church leaders for decades without charges
In the nearly 21 years since two Orthodox priests were arbitrarily imprisoned in Eritrea, their wives have died. Neither the Rev. Gebremedhin Gebregiorgis nor Dr. Futsum Gebrenegus have been charged ...
News Eritrea » Religion: Eritrean Orthodox patriarch dies after 16 years in detention
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94. He was still ...